MANILA, Philippines – Public school teachers will receive a P6,500 salary increase under the compensation adjustment program that the House of Representatives was scheduled to approve last night.
The program calls for increasing the teachers’ basic monthly pay to P18,549 over four years from the present P12,000.
The first installment of the adjustment would be paid on July 1 this year. Teachers’ groups are demanding an immediate increase of P3,000.
For Representatives Carlos Padilla of Nueva Vizcaya and Rufus Rodriguez of Cagayan de Oro City, P6,500 spread over four years is not enough. “This is not equal pay for work of equal value,” Padilla said, noting that teachers, unlike desk-bound bureaucrats, work long hours.
And yet, high-ranking bureaucrats such as undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and directors will get an increase of 100 percent of their basic pay, excluding allowances, he said.
Unlike teachers, he said these officials receive additional compensation in the form of fat allowances.
Padilla proposed that teachers who hold salary grade 10 under the 33-grade government compensation scheme should be adjusted to grade 15 with a monthly salary of P24,878.
Rodriguez, on the other hand, took up the cudgels for the more than 100,000 soldiers.
He said under the proposed pay adjustment program, soldiers would receive an additional P4,000 over four years, or P1,000 a year.
Since the first installment would be given on July 1, the lowest-paid members of the Armed Forces would be getting only P500 for this year, he said. He said soldiers, like teachers, work long hours and can even be considered as working 24 hours a day.
Under the proposed program, the President would have a salary of P120,000, up 100 percent from P60,000; while the Vice President would receive P103,000, which also represents a 100-percent increase.
Members of Congress would double their salaries to P90,000. Other bureaucrats getting substantial increases are undersecretaries, whose basic pay would be adjusted to P78,946; assistant secretaries, P73,099; and directors, P67,684.
The pay adjustment program is contained in Joint Resolution 36, which President Arroyo certified as urgent last Tuesday. The certification will enable the House to speed up its approval, which was expected to take place late last night.
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Una: Like I mentioned in this blog, kayang madoble ang sweldo ng ating mga guro, sundalo, kapulisan, at iba pang kawani ng gobyerno sa buong Pilipinas kung masusugpo nating ang graft and corruption sa bansa. Bakit kailangan doblehin ang suweldo ng matataas sa gobyerno at hindi at par sa naninilbihan sa ibaba? Ang mga teachers, sundalo, pulis, etc. ang araw-araw na nasa front line at marami sa kanila ang overworked pa. Nararapat lamang na bigyan sila ng health insurance, free housing, other benefits na hindi maibigay ng gobyerno dahil sa kawalan ng pera sa kaban dahil sa corruption. Panahon na para baguhin natin ang mabahong practice at sistemang ito na ninuno pa natin sa ilang dekadang pandaraya at panglilinglang sa mga civil servants.
Panagalwa: Tingnan natin kung magkano ang tamang suweldo ng ating top officials ayon sa balitang ito:
"The President would have a salary of P120,000, up 100 percent from P60,000; while the Vice President would receive P103,000, which also represents a 100-percent increase.
Members of Congress would double their salaries to P90,000. Other bureaucrats getting substantial increases are undersecretaries, whose basic pay would be adjusted to P78,946; assistant secretaries, P73,099; and directors, P67,684."
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