Section 35March 2, 1989, Sec./Art. 35

Equity of the Incumbent. - Incumbent career officials and rank-and-file employees of the National Labor Relations Commission not otherwise affected by this Act shall continue to hold office without need of reappointment. However, consistent with the need to professionalize the higher level of its officialdom invested with adjudicatory powers and salaries or emoluments, all positions of the Commissioners, Executive Labor Arbiters and Labor Arbiters of the present National Labor Relations Commissions are hereby declared vacant. However, subject officials shall continue to temporarily discharge their duties and functions until their successors shall have been duly appointed and qualified.