TO:     Agencies of the Government and
Government Owned and or Controlled
Corporations
WHEREAS, there is a substantial number of employees in the personnel roster of various departments, agencies and certain government owned and or controlled corporations not included in the respective approved staffing patterns under the Integrated Reorganization Plan but are still being paid their salaries because of the suspension of the implementation of the reorganization of said offices;

WHEREAS, the situation creates an atmosphere of uncertainty contrary to the intents and purposes of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, do hereby order and direct:

1. That the respective agencies should not fill existing vacancies without giving preference to the said employees in the filling of existing vacancies from a master list of laid off personnel as required in LOI No. 77, dated May 25, 1973;
2. That no new employee should be hired by any Agency without a certification of the Chief of Office and attested by the Civil Service Commission to the effect that there are no qualified eligibles from the existing pool; and
3. That all employees not absorbed by December 31, 1976 be retired under existing retirement laws.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines

Department			No. of Employee		Total Annual Salaries
Office of the President ...................................................................................			324		P2,548,503
	Commission on Population ...................................................................		239
	National Media Production Center .......................................................		5
	Philippine Ports Authority .....................................................................		80
Department of Agriculture .............................................................................			17		155,196
Department of Finance (BIR only) .................................................................			155		649,500
Department of Health ....................................................................................			118		650,289
Department of Justice ....................................................................................			226		724,573
Department of Local Government and
	Community Development .....................................................................		2		28,578
Department of Labor (NMYC only) .............................................................			3		10,270
Department of Natural Resources ..................................................................			12		44,484
Department of Public Works, Transportation
	and Communication ..............................................................................		920		3,742,670
Department of Social Welfare ........................................................................			136		511,196
Department of Trade .....................................................................................			66		418,913
Department of Education & Culture ...............................................................			1,223		5,360,870
National Science Development Board
	(FNRC only) .......................................................................................		1		3,521
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	TOTAL ...............................................................................................		3,370		P14,848,963
Corporation-Agencies not
Authorized in PD No. 738
Agricultural Credit Administration ...................................................................			8		P53,880
CEPOC Industries, Inc. .................................................................................			73		325,706
Home Financing Commission .........................................................................			86		556,872
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	Total ...................................................................................................		167		P936,458
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	GRAND TOTAL .................................................................................		3,370		p15,785,421
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