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Variation Orders beyond 10% shall be subjected to another contract to be bid if the works
are separable from the original contract or if urgently necessary to complete the original
scope of work, be authorized by the head of the procuring entity but not more than 20%
subject guidelines by the GPPB, but with appropriate sanctions to the designer, consultant or
official responsible for the original design.

Supplemental agreement is no longer allowed.

Liquidated Damages shall be imposed for delays in completion of work but “Incentive Bonus”
shall not be allowed.

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.