General powers and duties of the board.
Section 10
SEC. 10. General powers and duties of the board.—The board shall have the following powers and duties: To establish within the services the necessary groups with their corresponding grades, designating (1) the titles of the classes, (2) the duties and responsibilities involved in each class, illustrated where necessary by examples of typical tasks, and (3) the minimum qualifications required for the satisfactory performance of such duties and tasks, in conformity with the specifications outlined in sections three and four herein: Provided, however, That the board may lower or waive the experiential requirement for any particular group or groups in the service below Grade 8-and graduate the experiential requirement accordingly for the high grades within the same group, if, in the opinion of the said board, such action is for the best interest of the public service; To designate additional group or groups with their corresponding grades as necessity may arise from time to time, and to combine, divide, alter, or abolish existing groups or classes; To establish the procedure in fixing the rates of compensation in the case of (1) positions filled by inmates, patients, students, beneficiaries of government institutions, or volunteer workers, (2) positions of laborers employed in public works, and in emergency and seasonal positions, the duties of which are purely of temporary duration, (3) positions filled by part-time employees or by special assignments, and (4) positions paid on other than time basis; To classify all the positions existing on the date this Act takes effect and all positions that may thereafter be created based on statements to be submitted by the Department Heads concerned, giving the responsibilities and duties of the said positions and the minimum qualifications required of incumbents thereof; and to fix the date the initial allocations shall take effect in each bureau or office, which date shall not be later than January first, nineteen hundred and forty, unless extended by the President of the Philippines. The Department Heads shall submit the statements herein required at the time and in the manner and form prescribed by the board; To ascertain currently or periodically the facts as to the duties and responsibilities of any position within the scope of this Act and to determine upon its own findings the class to which any such position shall be allocated ; To make all other rules and regulations and to exercise all the powers and duties not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act but necessary to carry out its provisions.