Section 169Sec./Art. 169

Personnel of Reorganized or Abolished Agencies - Permanent officials and employees of all existing government agencies which are abolished or reorganized under this Code, subject to Civil Service Rules and regulations, shall be absorbed and shall not be divested of their positions except presidential appointees: Provided, That those presidential appointees who cannot be absorbed and such officials and employees who prefer to be laid-off shall be given gratuity equivalent to one month salary for every year of service but in no case more than twenty-four month's salary, in addition to all benefits to which they are entitled under existing laws and regulations.

To carry out the provisions of this Section, there is hereby appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand pesos out of the unappropriated funds in the National Treasury.