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APPENDIX 3
REVISED POLICIES/GUIDELINES FOR THE
APPROVED IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS (IRR)
FOR THE 30 HOURS WORK/WEEK POLICY

Legal Bases

1.RA 4670
2.P.D. 1434, 1437 and RA 8292
3.Board Resolution N.117, s. 2003

Rationale
The work of a faculty is unique and challenging. Aside from the basic instructional role, a faculty is
expected to perform research, extension, 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 member 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, 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 per week official time. Given the broad responsibilities that tertiary teachers take compared to the
basic education teachers in the public sector, charter 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
Commission.
Section 6 of P.D. 1434, 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 off office of the Governing Boards of SUCs empowered the BOR of the University to
fix the service hours of its faculty.
Section 4 of RA 8292, which now governs SUCs empowered the Board Regents of the University to
fix the hour of service of its faculty. Thus, the Board of Regents of the Isabela State University passed Res.
117, s. 2003, adopting the 30 hour official time per week teaching as the service hours of its faculty.
Pursuant to the above resolution, these rules and regulations implementing the 30-hour work per
week official policy is hereby laid.

I. Coverage
This guideline shall be applicable to all regular, as well as contractual (without designation) member
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.

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