Section 23Sec./Art. 23

Transition Period.

The transfer of functions, assets, funds, equipment, properties, transactions, and personnel of the affected agencies, and the formulation of the internal organic structure, staffing pattern, operating system, and revised budget of the Department, shall be completed within two (2) years from the effectivity of this Act: Provided, That until new appointments and new staffing pattern shall have been issued, the existing personnel of all subsumed entities shall continue to assume their posts on holdover capacities until new appointments or a new staffing pattern shall have been issued: Provided, further, That after the organization and rationalization process, the Department, in coordination with the DBM, shall determine and create new positions, the funding requirements of which shall not, exceed the equivalent cost of the positions subsumed.ℒαwρhi৷

A Transition Committee is hereby created which shall be composed of the Department of Migrant Workers Secretary, the Undersecretary for the Office of Migrant Workers Affairs of the DFA, the Administrator of the POEA, the Director of the ILAB of DOLE, the Director of the NRCO of OWWA, the Director of the National Maritime Polytechnic of DOLE and the Director of the Office of the Social Welfare Attach of the DSWD.

The Transition Committee shall facilitate the complete and full operation of the Department which shall not be later than two (2) years after the effectivity of this Act. It shall likewise promulgate the implementing rules and regulations necessary to effectively implement the smooth and orderly transfer to the Department of the subsumed agencies.

The Transition Committee shall be tasked with the following:

(a) Formulate the necessary implementing rules and regulations of the Department within sixty (60) days after the effectivity of this Act;

(b) Publish the implementing rules and regulations of the Department within seventy-five (75) days after the effectivity of this Act;

(c) Create a staffing pattern of the Department, in consultation with the DBM, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the effectivity of this Act;

(d) Submit to the DBM the Departments budget for fiscal year 2023; and Implement the training of the personnel of the Department.

The Department shall not be constituted without an appropriation in the 2023 General Appropriations Act; an effective implementing rules and regulations; and a staffing pattern.