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IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS
(IRR) FOR THE 30-HOUR WORK/WEEK POLICY

Legal bases:

1) RA 8292
2) RA 4670
3) PD 1464
4) Board Resolution No. 117, 2. 2003

RATIONALE

The work of a faculty is unique and challenging. Aside from the basic instructional role, a faculty
is expected to perform research, production and administrative roles in the University. The
activities of a classroom teacher cannot be confined within the physical boundaries of the
classroom or within the boundaries of the University. The faculty members must be given enough
freedom to prepare for their roles as teachers, to perform instruction-related activities, and to
manage their time in order that they can maximally perform and contribute to the other thrusts of
the University, namely: research, extension and production activities.

The logic of RA 4670 recognizes this freedom when it required basic education teachers to have
a 30-hour work/week official time. Given the broad responsibilities that tertiary teachers take
compared to the basic education teachers in the public sector, charters of state institutions of
higher learning such as State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) recognize the fact that members
of the faculty need much more flexibility in the management of their official time when it
empowered their Governing Boards to determine the appropriate service hour, notwithstanding
the general working hours prescribed by the Civil Service.

Section 6 P.D. 1464 which originally created the Isabela State University empowered the ISU
Board of Regents to determine the service hours of its faculty. Similarly, Section 3f of P.D. 1437
defining the composition and term of office of the Governing Boards of State Colleges and
Universities empowered the Board of Regents of the ISU to fix the service hours of its faculty.
Section 4h of RA 8292, which now governs State Colleges and Universities, empowered the
Board of Regents of the ISU to fix hour of service of its faculty. Thus, the Board of Regents of the
Isabela State University passed Resolution No. 117. S. 2003 adopting the 30-hour official time
per week for full time teaching, as the service hours of its faculty.

Pursuant to the above resolution, these rules and regulations implementing the 30-hour
work/week official time policy is hereby laid.

I. COVERAGE

This guideline shall be applicable to all regular, as well as contractual (without designation)
members of the faculty of the Isabela State University who are actually holding teaching
assignments. Faculty members who have been hired on part-time basis are not covered.

II. DEFINITION OF TERMS

For the purpose of these guidelines the following terms are hereby defined:
1) Actual Contact Hours – refer to the length of time a faculty member is engaged in actual
teaching.