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