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Working with both Houses of Congress, PCCI champions legislative and regulatory changes intended to improve the country’s economic performance, promote business development, and sustain the economic successes that the country has already achieved. PCCI’s legislative agenda reflects the organization’s keen acumen in initiating key legislations that will have positive impacts on the country as a whole.
PCCI’s legislative agenda is culled from its nationwide consultations with its local chambers, industry associations, foreign chambers, and other key stakeholders.
Director-in-Charge:
Edgardo G. Lacson
Chairperson:
Atty. Gregorio Batiller, Jr.
Staff in Charge:
Noel Domingo/ Marlon Mina
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The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the largest business organization in the Philippines, expressed serious concern over the inclusion of Section 30 of the Immigration Act of 2010 which grants Immigration Commissioner the power to “authorize immigration employees to do overtime work at rates fixed by him when the services rendered is to be paid for by the shipping companies, airlines, or other persons served.”
According to PCCI, what Immigration personnel do in seaports and airports is for the protection of the State and is therefore considered public service. The rendering of overtime work should then be underwritten by the agency concerned, duly integrated in the General Appropriations Act.
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The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), together with the Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC), Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) and the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines ECOP), presented to the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) last June 11 policy recommendations of the business community that are hoped to make the priority measures at the opening of the 3rd session of the 14th Congress.
Said recommendations were gathered from the Focus Group Discussion organized by PCCI together with the Universal Access to Competitiveness and Trade (U-ACT), the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last May 20 that were participated in by local and foreign business leaders.
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