Preamble
WHEREAS, there is an imperative and urgent need to upgrade personnel administration in local governments to ensure their effectiveness for meaningful development and progress in nation building; WHEREAS, position classification and salary administration has been long recognized and accepted as necessary managerial tools to promote work efficiency, to delineate duties and responsibilities, to preclude the proliferation of unnecessary positions, to prevent pay inequities, to facilitate the budgeting process and the preparation of more informative, realistic and meaningful personnel programs, and to enhance the development of a career-oriented, motivated, responsive and stable corps of employees in the local government service; WHEREAS, the Constitution provides for the standardization of salaries of government officials and employees taking into account the nature of the responsibilities pertaining to, and the qualifications required for, the positions concerned; WHEREAS, the salary rates of Provincial, City and Municipal officials fixed by law under Republic Act Numbers 4477, 6414 and/or other salary laws are already outmoded, are no longer adequate to cope with the rising cost of living, and have not kept up with rates in the national government and in the private sector; WHEREAS, the basic concepts underlying position classification and salary standardization have not been carried to practical application in the local government service although the need therefor has long been acknowledged; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree and order: