Administration Order No. 80, December 28, 1963

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE REVISION OF THE MINIMUM WAGE LAW.

WHEREAS, since the enactment of the Minimum Wage Law (Rep. Act No. 602) in 1951, substantial changes have taken place in the cost of living and other phases of the economic life of our people which call for a revision and reexamination of the wages fixed by law for our working class; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that the matter be thoroughly studied to the end that requisite legislation may be adopted to bring about a more realistic and adequate scale of wages for the improvement and amelioration of our employees and laborers with due regard to the capacity of the employers and their right to a just return for their investments.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a committee to study and examine existing laws and regulations concerning wages and make necessary recommendations for their amendment or revision. It shall be composed of the following:

The Secretary of Finance	Chairman
The Chairman, NEC	Member
The Secretary of Labor	“
The Secretary of Commerce and Industry	“
The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources	“
The Director General, Program Implementation Agency	“

The committee is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency, or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the performance of its duties.

The committee shall submit its report and recommendations, together with draft of the legislative measure or measures, to the President before the opening of the next regular session of Congress.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUFINO G. HECHANOVA

Executive Secretary