Section 3
SEC. 3. The Office shall have the following powers and functions: To exercise general supervision and control over the social amelioration program in the sugar industry and all such programs as may be established under the succeeding paragraph; To determine and recommend social amelioration programs for the rural workers; which programs shall include the amount of fees and charges, the mode of collection and disposition, subject to the approval by the President; To initiate, undertake, arrange or authorize research projects to identify and study socio-economic problems of rural workers and propose solution thereto; To process and evaluate proposed socio-economic projects for rural workers under the social amelioration program, for approval by the Secretary of Labor; To supervise, regulate and audit implementation of approved socio-economic projects for rural workers and their families and to monitor the progress of these projects; To engage in income and employment generating projects provided that they are geared towards rural workers' organization and training for self-reliance and self-development; To enter into agreements for the development of rural employment, provisions of skills and placement facilities for rural workers in coordination with appropriate institutions including international agencies; To provide special assistance for the organization of rural workers into unions, cooperatives and other appropriate forms of organizations; To register, regulate and maintain exclusive control and supervision over rural workers cooperatives and unions under the social amelioration program; To assist misplaced, unassimilated and unemployed rural workers and their families in the urban areas by helping equip them with skills for urban employment or for returning to the countryside; To assist, in coordination with other government agencies, in the enforcement of policies and programs designed to protect and promote the welfare of rural workers, including improvement of their working conditions; To receive donations, grants and other forms of assistance from domestic and international sources, and enter into agreements with such agencies for the carrying out of the foregoing functions; and To exercise such other functions as may be assigned by the Secretary of Labor.