Administrative Code of 1987

Section 1

These Rules shall cover all officials and employees in the government, elective and appointive, permanent or temporary, whether in the career or non-career service, including military and police personnel, whether or not they receive compensation, regardless of amount.

Section 1

Except as otherwise provided, these Rules shall apply to all officers and employees both in the career and non-career service.

Section 2

The terms hereunder shall be construed as follows: (a) Agency means any bureau, office, commission, administration, board, committee, institute, corporation with original charter, or any other unit of the national government as well as provincial, city or municipal government. (b) Appointing officer is the person or body authorized by law to make appointments in the civil service. (c) Career service is composed of positions appointment to which prior qualification in an appropriate examination is required. (d) Class includes all positions in the government service that are sufficiently similar as to duties and responsibilities and require similar qualifications that can be given the same title and salary and for all administrative and compensation purposes, be treated alike. (e) Chairman refers to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission. (f) Code refers to Executive Order No. 292. (g) Commission refers to the Civil Service Commission. (h) Commissioner refers to either of the two other members of the Commission. (i) Department includes any of the executive departments or entities having the category of a department including the judiciary and the other constitutional commissions and bodies. (j) Eligible refers to a person who obtains a passing grade in a civil service examination given by the Commission or with its assistance or coordination or is conferred any civil service eligibility and whose name is entered in the register of eligibles. (k) Examination refers to a civil service examination conducted by the Commission or its offices or by other departments or agencies with the assistance of or in coordination with the Commission, and those it may delegate to departments and agencies or those that may have been delegated by law. (l) Form refers to those prescribed by the Commission. (m) Non-career service is composed of positions expressly declared by law to be in the non-career service; or those whose entrance in the service is characterized by (1) entrance on bases other than those of the usual tests of merit and fitness utilized for the career service; and (2) tenure which is limited to a period specified by law, or which is coterminous with that of the appointing authority or subject to his pleasure, or which is limited to the duration of a particular project from which purpose employment was made. (n) Officers and employees include all officials and employees in the civil service. (o) Position refers to a set of duties and responsibilities assigned by competent authority to be performed by an individual on either full time or part-time basis. (p) The following terms used in Rule XVI shall be construed as follows: 1. Leave of absence is generally defined as a right granted to officials and employees not to report for work with or without pay as may be provided by law and as the rules prescribe in Rule XVI hereof. 2. Commutation of leave credits refers to conversion of unused leave credits to their corresponding money value. 3. Cumulation of leave credits refers to incremental acquisition of unused leave credits by an official or employee. 4. Immediate family refers to the spouse, children, parents, unmarried brothers and sisters and any relative living under the same roof and dependent upon the employee for support. 5. Sick leave refers to leave of absence granted only on account of sickness or disability on the part of the employee concerned or any member of his immediate family. 6. Vacation leave refers to leave of absence granted to officials and employees for personal reasons, the approval of which is contingent upon the necessities of the service. 7. Monetization refers to payment in advance under prescribed limits and subject to specified terms and conditions of the money value of leave credits of an employee upon his request without actually going on leave. 8. Pregnancy refers to the period between conception and delivery or birth of a child. For purposes of maternity leave, miscarriage is within the period of pregnancy. 9. Maternity leave refers to leave of absence granted to female government employees legally entitled thereto in addition to vacation and sick leave. The primary intent or purpose of granting maternity leave is to extend working mothers some measures of financial help and to provide her a period of rest and recuperation in connection with her pregnancy. 10. Paternity leave refers to the privilege granted to a married male employee allowing him not to report for work for seven (7) days while continuing to earn the compensation therefor, on the condition that his legitimate spouse has delivered a child or suffered a miscarriage, for purposes of enabling him to effectively lend care and support to his wife before, during and after childbirth as the case may be and assist in caring for his new-born child. 11. Vacation Service Credits refers to the leave credits earned by public school teachers for services rendered during activities authorized by proper authorities during long and Christmas vacation. These credits are used to offset their absences due to illness or to offset proportional deduction in vacation salary due to absences for personal reasons or late appointment. 12. Terminal leave refers to money value of the total accumulated leave credits of an employee based on the highest salary rate received prior to or upon retirement date/voluntary separation. 13. Special leave privileges refers to leave of absence which officials and employees may avail of for a maximum of three (3) days annually over and above the vacation, sick, maternity and paternity leaves to mark personal milestones and/or attend to filial and domestic responsibilities. 14. Relocation leave refers to a special leave privilege granted to an official/employee whenever he/she transfers residence. ||| (Amendments to Rules I and XVI of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Book V of the Administrative Code of 1987 (Executive Order 292), CSC Memorandum Circular No. 41-98, [December 24, 1998])