House Bill 9920 o An Act Increasing the Minimum Wage Salaries of Public School Teachers to P50,000

GOOD NEWS! THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR, TEACHERS! 

Nagfile ang Makabayan Bloc ng House Bill No. 9920 o An Act Increasing the Minimum Wage Salaries of Public School Teachers to P50,000 and Appropriating Funds therefor.

The goal of this bill is to raise the minimum wage for teachers, which has long been neglected and is no longer inadequate. ACT Teachers Partylist has been fighting for this for a long time because teachers' salaries are so messed up.

Representative requests to support campaign for teacher pay hike and push for passing the said bill.

In the news: A bill granting a P50,000 entry-level salary for public school teachers has been proposed in the House of Representatives.

Makabayan bloc lawmakers France Castro of ACT Teachers party-list, Arlene Brosas of Gabriela party-list and Raoul Manuel of Kabataan partylist made the proposal under House Bill 9920.

This bill proposes substantial salary increases for public school teachers to close the gap between their salaries and the cost of living. It will also address the distortion created by the doubling of entry-level pay of military and uniformed personnel,” the authors said.

“Teachers are given increases of a little over P6,000 spread across four years, or about P1,500 annually. They might not bear arms, but they are professionals with qualifications higher than police and soldiers,” the lawmakers pointed out.

Source: Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Philippines