(e) To regulate the employment of aliens, including the establishment of a registration and/or work permit system (d) To facilitate and regulate the movement of workers in conformity with the national interest
(c) To facilitate a free choice of available employment by persons seeking work in conformity with the national interest (b) To protect every citizen desiring to work locally or overseas by securing for him the best possible terms and conditions of employment
(a) To promote and maintain a state of full employment through improved manpower training, allocation and utilization Statement of objectives. It is the policy of the State: Implementing agency. The Department of Agrarian Reform shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter.Īrticle 12.
27, the Code of Agrarian Reforms and other existing laws and regulations.Īrticle 11. 27 or the Land Reform Program of the Government shall not be transferable except by hereditary succession or to the Government in accordance with the provisions of Presidential Decree No. Title to the land acquired pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 27 shall be actually issued to him unless and until he has become a full-fledged member of a duly recognized farmers’ cooperative. Conditions of ownership. No title to the land acquired by the tenant-farmer under Presidential Decree No. The government shall guarantee such amortizations with shares of stock in government-owned and government-controlled corporations.Īrticle 10. In case of default, the amortizations due shall be paid by the farmer’s cooperative of which the defaulting tenant-farmer is a member, with the cooperative having a right of recourse against him. The total cost of the land, including interest at the rate of six percent per annum, shall be paid by the tenant in fifteen years of fifteen equal annual amortizations. Determination of land value. For the purpose of determining the cost of the land to be transferred to the m tenant-farmer, the value of the land shall be equivalent to two and one-half times the average harvest of three normal crop years immediately preceding the promulgation of Presidential Decree No. In all cases, the landowner may retain an area of not more than seven hectares if such landowner is cultivating such area or will now cultivate it.Īrticle 9. Transfer of lands to tenant workers. Being a vital part of the labor force, tenant-farmers on private agricultural lands primarily devoted to rice and corn under a system of share crop or lease tenancy whether classified as landed estate or not shall be deemed owner of a portion constituting a family size farm of five hectares if not irrigated and three hectares if irrigated. Statement of objectives. Inasmuch as the old concept of land ownership by a few has spawned valid and legitimate grievances that gave rise to violent conflict and social tension and the redress of such legitimate grievances being one of the fundamental objectives of the New Society, it has become imperative to start reformation with the emancipation of the tiller of the soil from his bondage.Īrticle 8. 6640, 6657, 6715, 67Ī DECREE INSTITUTING A LABOR CODE, THEREBY REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING LABOR AND SOCIAL LAWS TO AFFORD PROTECTION TO LABOR, PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND ENSURE INDUSTRIAL PEACE BASED ON SOCIAL JUSTICE.Īrticle 7. 32, 70, 130 and 227 Executive Orders Nos.