BER 2024: VP Duterte puts spotlight on teachers’ overload pay, calamity fund, service credits

Manila Bulletin

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday, Jan. 25, announced the establishment of a Calamity Fund for public school teachers to provide them with immediate financial assistance during disaster situations. (Video Courtesy of RTVM)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/1/25/ber-2024-vp-duterte-puts-spotlight-on-teachers-overload-pay-calamity-fund-service-credits  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00 [SPEAKING IN TAGALOG]

00:23 We will soon issue the employer welfare and well-being policy

00:28 guidelines.

00:29 We will be establishing a calamity fund that

00:32 will provide immediate financial assistance to our teachers

00:36 and personnel in times of disaster.

00:39 We do recognize the burden that comes not only with calamities,

00:47 but those also brought about by medical emergencies.

00:51 Thus, we will also propose and fervently

00:55 move for the amendment of an administrative order that

00:59 will allow us to finally provide health insurance for our teachers

01:04 and non-teaching personnel.

01:06 [APPLAUSE]

01:10 We will also issue a policy on teaching overload pay.

01:15 We want to ensure that our teachers are rightfully compensated

01:20 for hours of actual classroom teaching beyond the six-hour limit provided

01:26 under the Magna Carta for teachers.

01:29 [APPLAUSE]

01:33 Aside from overload pay, we also want to give overtime pay

01:39 to our teachers.

01:40 [APPLAUSE]

01:44 Historically, for non-teaching tasks performed outside

01:49 their regular working hours, teachers are only

01:52 compensated through service credits.

01:56 In the next budget cycle, DepEd will be proposing

01:59 a budget that will enable us to grant overtime pay to our teachers.

02:04 [APPLAUSE]

02:08 Speaking of service credits, we will also

02:11 increase the cap for service credits.

02:14 We will raise the cap from the current 15 days to at least 30 days.

02:19 [APPLAUSE]

02:24 DepEd is also aware of the concerns regarding

02:27 the Continuing Professional Development, or CPD.

02:31 We have initiated talks with the Professional Regulation Commission

02:37 towards streamlining the accreditation process for all DepEd NAEP

02:43 professional development programs across all governance levels.

02:48 With this, our teachers will not have to absorb

02:52 additional financial burden for CPD units.

02:57 Finally, we have always expressed our intention

03:01 to remove administrative tasks from our teachers.

03:06 [APPLAUSE]

03:10 After holding several consultations with our field personnel,

03:15 the department order on the removal of administrative tasks for teachers

03:20 will be released tomorrow, and the corresponding strand memorandum

03:24 will be released next week.

03:28 To ensure its effective implementation, along with the filling up

03:33 of 5,000 administrative personnel for 2023,

03:37 and another 5,000 administrative personnel for 2024,

03:42 we will also be providing additional MOOE to enable our schools

03:48 to hire the necessary administrative support staff.

03:51 [APPLAUSE]

03:55 Let us bring our teachers back to the classrooms.

04:00 [AUDIO OUT]

04:04 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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