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Publications and source records attributed to Philippines.
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As of January 1987, the maximum amount of maternity benefits in the Philippines was increased from 1500 to 4500 pesos.
This Order creates in the Philippines a National Government Center (NGC) Housing Committee to implement Proclamation No. 137 of 11 August 1987, which set aside 150 acres of land for the development of a housing project. The project is to serve as a prototype for developing land within the framework of the existing urban land reform laws. The Committee has the power to do the following: "b.1) Define the project's concept and strategies of implementation; b.2) formulate policies and guidelines on: b.2.1) land disposition, allocation and distribution of NGC housing site to bona fide residents subject to the provisions of Proclamation No. 137 dated August 11, 1987; b.2.2) population containment within the defined project area; b.2.3) qualified beneficiaries for the project; b.2.4) housing finance for beneficiaries; and b.2.5) project administration and other implementation requirements; b.3) formulate systems and procedures for project implementation; b.4) prepare the project's work program and budget; b.5) identify and mobilize fund resources for project implementation; b.6) monitor and evaluate all phases of project implementation; b.7) make final decisions on all cases and issues affecting project implementation which cannot be resolved at the operations level; b.8) call on any government department or agency for assistance whenever necessary." Further provisions of the order deal with the composition of the Committee, the Project Administrator, support agencies, and funding, among other things.
This Order is designed to strengthen the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women and authorizes the Commission "1) to call upon the assistance of any department, agency, or instrumentality, including government-owned or controlled corporations; 2) to engage the services of persons, natural or judicial, necessary for the implementation of its programs and projects; and 3) to set up a Fund Code, in coordination with the Department of Budget and Management and consistent with the provisions of the annual General Appropriation Act, for all donations, contributions, grants, bequests or gifts received."
On 7 January 1988, the Immigration Commissioner of the Philippines announced that all temporary or permanent aliens resident in the Philippines were required to register with the Commission on Immigration and Deportation in order to legalize their stay in the country. Those who failed to register by a March deadline were subject to immediate deportation. The Commission also set a P500,000 reward for those giving information on the whereabouts of overstaying or undesirable aliens. Effective 21 November 1988, President Corazon Aquino ordered the alien legalization program to be suspended. See Manila Radio Veritas, 18 November 1988; Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-EAS-88-224, 21 November 1988, p. 41.
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This Order reconstitutes the Task Force on International Refugee Assistance in the Philippines. The Task Force is composed of representatives of various government agencies and is under the Department of Foreign Affairs. The duties and responsibilities of the Task Force are as follows: "1) to coordinate and cooperate with [the] UN High Commissioner for Refugees efforts and activities relative to refugee assistance; 2) to formulate guidelines for a more efficient refugee assistance regarding the operation and management of all established refugee camp centers in the Philippines and the disposition of funds and other assistance received from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and other international refugee-assistance institutions; 3) to assess, review and evaluate existing structures and policies of the government for the refugee assistance and management and make recommendations thereon to the President; 4) to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Philippine Government for such assistance as it may require in the performance of its duties and functions; 5) to submit reports to the President and to the UN, through the President, on its activities, including the disposition of funds and other assistance received from the UN and other international refugee-assistance institutions."
This Order provides that "Filipino overseas contract workers with approved employment contracts and duly certified by the Ministry of Labor and Employment" are exempted from the payment of the travel tax established by Presidential Decree No. 1183, as amended.
On 20 January 1988, the President of the Philippines prohibited Filipino maids from going abroad to work. Later in 1988, the ban was lifted for some countries after the institution of safeguards in agreements with those countries. Among these countries is Saudi Arabia. See Philippine Labor, Vol. 14, No. 10, 1988.
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This Philippines Act declares "It is the policy of the State to provide for a free public, secondary education to all qualified citizens." The Act stipulates that students enrolled in secondary course offerings are to be free from payment of tuition and other school fees except "fees related to membership in the school community such as identification cards, student organizations and publications." The provisions of the Act are to be implemented starting with the 1988/89 school year.
This Act institutes the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). CARP takes as its declared aim "the establishment of owner cultivatorship of economic-size farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture" (Section 2). It prohibits the retention by landowners of more than five hectares of land and, for each child of the landowner over 15 years old, an additional three hectares, providing he or she is personally cultivating that land (Section 6). That limit of three hectares is also the upper limit for the redistribution of land to "qualified beneficiaries." These may be agricultural lessees and share tenants, regular, seasonal, or other farm workers, actual tillers or occupants of public lands, or some others directly working on the land (Section 22). Where splitting up of the land is economically inappropriate, then it may be taken over by collectives or cooperatives of these categories of agricultural workers (Sections 25 and 29). The land reforms envisaged under CARP are scheduled to take place in three phases over a 10-year period. Land in the public domain held or leased by multinational corporations is scheduled for expropriation within three years of the passing of the Act (Section 8); land otherwise controlled to be redistributed during the first phase is generally scheduled for redistribution in order of the size of the landholdings: that is, the larger the holding, the earlier it is scheduled for redistribution. Land acquisition is to be carried out by means of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP). The level of compensation payable to the expropriated landowner is to be determined by the DAR, the LBP, and the landowner, according to the cost of acquisition and development of the land, current market values, the income it generates in the light of the sworn valuation of the owner, and any tax returns pertaining to it. If the landowner disagrees with the level of compensation offered, there is a right of appeal to the courts. Payment of compensation, carried out through the medium of the LBP, is to be partly in cash and partly in government bonds, or in credits for taxes or other government funded services such as education and hospitalization. For land in excess of 50 hectares, the proportion payable in cash is 25% and for land below 24 hectares in area, 35%. These amounts may be increased by 5% in cases where the landowner voluntarily puts the land forward for transfer under the Program.