AN ACT TO AMEND AND REVISE THE LAWS RELATIVE TO PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE
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AN ACT TO AMEND AND REVISE THE LAWS RELATIVE TO PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE
Republic Act No. 2260
June 19, 1959
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ARTICLE I: IntroductionSection 1-2: Titles the law as the "Civil Service Act of 1959" and states its purpose of ensuring merit-based appointments and maintaining an efficient civil service system in the Philippines.
ARTICLE II: Scope of the Civil Service
Section 3: Defines the scope of the Philippine Civil Service, including competitive/classified service, non-competitive/unclassified service, and exempt service.
Section 4: The competitive/classified service includes positions requiring prior qualification through examination.
Section 5: The non-competitive/unclassified service includes policy-determining, confidential, or highly technical positions, as well as specific officers and employees listed.
Section 6: The exempt service consists of elective officers, military personnel, and contract-based employees.
ARTICLE III: Organization
Section 7: Establishes the Civil Service Commission, headed by a Commissioner appointed for a 9-year term, and a Deputy Commissioner.
Section 8: Allows the Commissioner to establish regional offices in specified cities.
Section 9: Provides for a Wage and Position Classification Office to classify positions and standardize salaries, with specified salary ranges for civil service eligibilities.
Section 10: Department Heads are responsible for personnel administration in their departments.
Section 11: Creates a Civil Service Board of Appeals to hear appeals from the Commissioner's decisions.
Section 12: Establishes a Council of Personnel Officers to advise on personnel policies and procedures.
Section 13: Allows the Commissioner to appoint examining committees, special examiners, and special investigators, who may receive additional compensation.
ARTICLE IV: Qualifications, Salaries, Powers and Duties
Section 14: Outlines qualifications for the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, including age, experience, and familiarity with personnel administration.
Section 15: Sets minimum annual salaries of P12,000 for the Commissioner and P10,000 for the Deputy Commissioner.
Section 16: Outlines the powers and duties of the Commissioner, including enforcing merit system provisions, supervising examinations, making investigations, approving appointments, hearing appeals, and prescribing rules and regulations.
Section 17: Regional Directors represent the Commissioner and perform duties assigned within their regions.
Section 18: The Civil Service Board of Appeals hears and decides appeals from the Commissioner's decisions within 90 days.
Section 19: Requires public officers to comply with and aid in carrying out the provisions of this law.
ARTICLE V: Delegation of Authority
Section 20: Allows the Commissioner to delegate authority to officials within the Commission or agency heads, including provincial and city treasurers attesting appointments.
Section 21: Requires each department and agency to have a personnel office headed by a personnel officer.
ARTICLE VI: Personnel Policies and Standards
Section 22: Declares the policy of equal pay for equal work and basing pay differences on duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.
Section 23: Outlines recruitment and selection policies, including promotion of qualified employees, examination requirements, and integration of cultural minorities.
Section 24: Defines personnel actions and employment status, including permanent, provisional, and temporary appointments, as well as promotions, transfers, demotions, separations, and reinstatements.
Section 25: Requires a continuing program of employee training, supervisory development, and executive development.
Section 26: Establishes a performance rating system to be administered by the Commission.
Section 27: Establishes an Employee Suggestions and Incentive Award System, with cash awards up to P1,000 for contributions to efficiency or extraordinary acts.
Section 28: Addresses employee-employer relations, complaints and grievances, and limitations on the right to strike.
Section 29: Prohibits civil service officers and employees from engaging in partisan political activities, except voting and expressing views.
Section 30: Prohibits nepotism in appointments and outlines exemptions and procedures for correcting violations.
Section 31: Prohibits dual compensation for civil service officers and employees unless authorized by law.
ARTICLE VII: Discipline
Section 32: Outlines due process requirements for removing or suspending civil service officers and employees.
Section 33: Grants the Commissioner authority to impose disciplinary actions, including removal, demotion, suspension without pay for up to 1 year, or fines up to 6 months' salary.
Section 34: Allows the President and department heads to preventively suspend officers and employees pending investigation.
Section 35: Requires reinstatement of preventively suspended employees if the case is not decided within 60 days, and restoration with full pay if exonerated.
Section 36: Establishes a 30-day period for appealing the Commissioner's decisions to the Civil Service Board of Appeals and procedures for petitions for reconsideration.
Section 37: Allows the President to commute or remove administrative penalties or disabilities upon recommendation of the Civil Service Board of Appeals.
ARTICLE VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 38: Allows the Commissioner to prescribe examination fees not exceeding P2 per candidate, with funds used for Commission expenses.
Section 39: Appropriates P250,000 for the fiscal year 1960 to finance regional offices and salaries, with subsequent funding through the General Appropriation Act.
Section 40: Prohibits requiring applicants or employees to waive rights under this law.
Section 41: Authorizes Commission officers, attorneys, and examiners to administer oaths and take testimony.
Section 42: Prohibits disbursing officers from paying salaries without proper certification from the Commissioner and holds them personally liable for unlawful payments.
Section 43: Holds appointing authorities personally liable for paying salaries to unlawfully employed persons.
Section 44: Establishes penal provisions of fines up to P1,000 and/or imprisonment up to 6 months for violations of this law or rules.
Section 45: Repeals specified sections of the Revised Administrative Code, Commonwealth Act No. 598, and other inconsistent laws or orders.
Section 46: Includes a separability clause for invalid or unconstitutional provisions.
Section 47: Sets the effective date and provides for the continuation of vested rights or privileges under the previous Civil Service Law.
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AN ACT TO AMEND AND REVISE THE LAWS RELATIVE TO PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE
Republic Act No. 2260
•June 19, 1959
REPUBLIC ACT No. 2260
AN ACT TO AMEND AND REVISE THE LAWS RELATIVE TO PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE
ARTICLE IIntroduction
Section 1. Title of Act. This Act shall be known as the Civil Service Act of 1959.
Section 2. General Purpose. The general purpose of this Act is to insure and promote the constitutional mandate regarding appointments only according to merit and fitness, and to provide within the public service a progressive system of personnel administration to insure the maintenance of an honest, efficient, progressive and courteous civil service in the Philippines.
ARTICLE IIScope of the Civil Service
Section 3. Positions Embraced in the Civil Service. The Philippine Civil Service shall embrace all branches, subdivisions and instrumentalities of the Government, including government-owned or controlled corporations, and appointments therein, except as to those which are policy determining, primarily confidential or highly technical in nature, shall be made only according to merit and fitness, to be determined as far as practicable by competitive examination. Positions included in the civil service fall into three categories; namely, competitive or classified...
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