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(2) Participate in national, regional or industry-specific tripartite conferences
which the President or the Secretary of Labor and Employment may call from time to
time;

(3) Review existing labor, economic and social policies and evaluate local and
international developments affecting them;

(4) Formulate, for submission to the President or to Congress, tripartite views,
recommendations and proposals on labor, economic, and social concerns, including
the presentation of tripartite positions on relevant bills pending in Congress;

(5) Advise the Secretary of Labor and Employment in the formulation or
implementation of policies and legislation affecting labor and employment;

(6) Serve as a communication channel and a mechanism for undertaking joint
programs among government, workers, employers and their organizations toward
enhancing labor-management relations; and

(7) Adopt its own program of activities and rules, consistent with development
objectives.

All TIPCs shall be an integral part of the organizational structure of the NTIPC.

The operations of all TIPCs shall be funded from the regular budget of the
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ART. 291. [276] Government Employees. The terms and conditions of
employment of all government employees, including employees of government-
owned and controlled corporations, shall be governed by the Civil Service Law, rules
and regulations. Their salaries shall be standardized by the National Assembly as
provided for in the New Constitution. However, there shall be no reduction of
existing wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment being
enjoyed by them at the time of the adoption of this Code.

ART. 292. [277] Miscellaneous Provisions. 225 (a) All unions are authorized to
collect reasonable membership fees, union dues, assessments and fines and other
contributions for labor education and research, mutual death and hospitalization
benefits, welfare fund, strike fund and credit and cooperative undertakings.

(b) Subject to the constitutional right of workers to security of tenure and their
right to be protected against dismissal except for a just and authorized cause and
without prejudice to the requirement of notice under Article 283 of this Code, 226 the

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Pars. (a), (b), (c), (f), (h), and (i), as amended and added by Sec. 33 of R.A. No. 6715 (1989). Pars. (e) and (g), as added by Sec. 14 of B.P. Blg. 130 (1981).

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Art. 283 has been renumbered as Art. 298.

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