Teachers demand compensation for lost leave benefits

As public school teachers complete their regular 10-month service per school year today, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines pressed the Duterte government ‘to justly compensate’ their forgone proportional vacation pay (PVP) due to the adjusted school calendar under distance learning. Public school teachers started working for the current school year on June 1, 2020, but with the current school year stretching up to July 2021, they are required to work for 14 months straight without a day of leave benefits.

In a letter sent to the Department of Education yesterday, ACT pressed the agency to immediately issue the guidelines for PVP for this school year and ‘come up with measures that would bring justice to the situation.’

ACT Philippines Secretary General Raymond Basilio shared that many teachers are suffering from physical and mental stresses due to overwork and burdensome expenses under the distancing learning. He cited that until now, public school teachers have not received the full payment for communication expense reimbursement and service recognition incentive for 2020 while the Performance-based Bonus for 2019 is yet to be released. Their demand for P1,500 monthly internet allowance remains unheeded while President Duterte’s promise for substantial salary increase is still unfulfilled.

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Source: QCPSTA Teachers Facebook Page