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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article 15, Section 1 provides “The State recognizes the 
Accordingly, it shall strengthen its 
Filipino family as the foundation of the nation. 
solidarity and actively promote its total development.” 
The Department of Labor and Employment [DOLE) has, for a long time now, 
already shifted from “family planning” to the more popularly accepted and holistic 
concept of “family welfare”. The present Family Welfare Program (FWP) being 
promoted by DOLE has ten dimensions, of which Reproductive Health (RH) covering 
family planning is merely one. 
The present implementers of FWP are not limited to establishments employing 
200 or more workers. Some smaller establishments have voluntarily or optionally 
promoted family welfare at their workplaces. 
The adoption of holistic, comprehensive and multi-sectoral approaches and 
strategies is imperative in integrating other welfare services (such as livelihood, 
education, nutrition, spiritualhahe formation, etc.) into the provisions of the Labor Code. 
Hence, the Labor Code provisions on family planning should be amended in order 
to reflect the new program. However, the new provisions shouId be re-located from Book 
I11 (Conditions of Employment) to Book IV wealth, Safety, and Social Welfare 
Benefits). 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
AN ACT 
TO AMEND PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, BOOK N, 
TO INCLUDE AN 
ADDITIONAL TITLE ON FAMILY WELFARE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Presidential Decree No. 442, Book JV, is hereby amended to include 
an additional title on Family Welfare, to read as follows: 
Title V - Employee Welfare Services 
FAMILY WELFARE 
ART. 211. Family welfare services. - Family welfare services for employees 
shall include the following dimensions: 
(1) Spirituality or Value formation; 
(2) Responsible Parenthood; 
(3) Nutrition; 
(4) Education and Gender Equality; 
(5) Medical Health Care 
(6) Income Generation; 
(7) Environment Protection and Sanitation; 
(8) Housing; 
(9) Sports and Recreation; and 
(IO) Transportation. 
Establishments with 200 or more workers are required to set up family welfare 
committees or other mechanisms that will provide family welfare services, which shall 
include free natural family planning education, to their employees. 


Establishments with less than 200 workers shall develop their own programs or 
mechanisms to promote family welfare services, such as integrating into the 
responsibilities of the safety and health committee, as may be appropriate in their own 
circumstances. 
SECTION 2. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid 
or unconstitutional, the remainder of the Act or the provision not otherwise affected shall 
remain valid and subsisting. 
SECTION 3. Repealing Clause. - The provisions of Presidential Decree No. 442, 
Book 111, Title 111, Chapter 1, Article 134, and any law, presidential decree or issuance, 
executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to, 
or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended 
accordingly. 
SECTION 4. Efectivity CZause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after 
its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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