sr25i2024 CentralBooks:Reader Da CET le PHILIPPINE REPORTS ANNOTATED VOLUME 109 Reference Case Title: PERFECTO R. FRANCHE, ET AL., petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE PEDRO C. HERNAEZ, ETC., ET AL,, respondents. Citation: 109 Phil. 782 Morea Search Result PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE. The National Economie Council is an office in the Executive Branch of the Government of the Philippines (Commonwealth Act No. 2), and its employees are embraced within the Philippine Civil Service. So are those paid from counterpart funds as these were appointed with —_ the concurrence of the Commissioner of the Civil Service and the Commissioner of the Budget. 21D; ID; STATUS NOT AFFECTED BY TRANSFER; LEGISLATIVE, INTENT DEDUCED FROM APPROPRIATION — ACT._—The integration or transfer of the positions in question from the NEC to the Bureau of the Census and Statistics did not have the effect of depriving the employees affected of their status as employees in the Philippine Civil Service, or make their salaries subject to reduction at the will and by action of the Secretary of Commerce and Industry. Since the appropriation act carried the same salaries that they used to receive in the NEC, the legislative intent is clear that it intended to grant them the same salaries And since the Cabinet and the President had authorized the payment of their salaries in the meanwhile, such action cannot be countermanded by the Secretary of Commerce and Industry who is a mere subordinate of the President. ORIGINAL ACTION in the Supreme Thi Court. Mandamus. e facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. ‘© Copyright 2021 Central Ince RB Abele fow natitinars Book Supply, ne. All rights reserved. _ww.central.com phistsreader'session/0000017868488bfcb53/7a1 10036001002c009eN/70=False 1"