ACT PARTYLIST:UPGRADE TEACHERS' SALARIES NOW! [SG 15 for Teacher I, SG 16 for Instructor I]

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers recently posted through their official FB page the petition to upgrade the salary grade of teacher 1 to Salary Grade 15.

 

 

Read below the full details: (courtesy of The Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Philippines FB Page)

 

PETITION: Tuparin ang Pangako! Upgrade Teachers' Salaries Now!

Sign the petition here: https://forms.gle/EUUE3dvZKaAKa6UT6

 
Roughly one year before President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s term ends, we renew our call to the President to fulfill his promise of livable and decent salaries for Filipino teachers. Republic Act 11466 of 2020 (Salary Standardization Law V) only provided for measly salary adjustments that did not ‘insure a reasonable standard of life for teachers and their families,’ as mandated by the Magna Carta of Public School Teachers.

As such, we demand the upgrading of Filipino teachers’ salaries: Salary Grade 15 for Teacher 1 in basic education; Salary Grade 16 for Instructor I in higher education; and increasing the minimum salary of education support personnel to P16,000 monthly before President Duterte relinquishes his post. Our just demands are based on the following grounds: 

1. Teachers’ salaries are sorely left behind compared to occupations requiring similar qualifications, trainings and abilities. Military and uniformed personnel have been receiving a base pay of P29,668 since the doubling of their salaries in 2018. Entry-level nurses are now assigned a monthly salary of P33,575 after the upgrading of Nurse I pay to salary grade 15 in 2020 through the Supreme Court order to implement the provision of the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002. Teacher I position, however, remains at salary grade 11 which translates to a meager pay of P23,877 under the second tranche of SSL V;

2. The P1,652 increase in the monthly salaries of teachers in 2020 and 2021 under SSL V is rendered insignificant by the increases in income tax and mandatory contributions to GSIS and PhilHealth, as well as the steep rise in the cost of goods and services, especially with the worst economic crisis yet since the World War II;

3. Teachers bear the brunt of the high costs of distance learning and work-from-home set-up due to insufficient government funding for education amid the pandemic, thereby worsening our already dire economic conditions; 

4. The government has enough funds to finance the salary upgrading of teachers as shown by the big spending on Build, Build, Build projects and counter-insurgency campaign, if only public money is allocated to correct priorities;

5. The current salary grades of teachers weigh down the quality of education, are not commensurate to the volume of our workload, and do not reflect the State’s appreciation of teachers’ vital role in nation-building.

 

 

Source: https://www.facebook.com/actph1982