Classes in public school will start next week but until now the Department of Education (DepEd) has yet to release the guidelines for the 87 days overtime pay of teachers for the service rendered last school year.
Zimbabwe’s government on Tuesday said it would force unvaccinated civil servants and teachers to resign in a bid to ramp up the uptake of Covid-19 jabs.
With classes set to open amid the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, Senator Win Gatchalian is pressing the national government to uphold the welfare of teachers, especially those falling ill with Covid-19.
Assistant Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to review the amounts of honoraria and allowances granted to public school teachers and other individuals rendering election service.
Teachers and school staff should be among the groups prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations so that schools in Europe and Central Asia can stay open, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef said on Monday.
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro expressed concern over whether teachers will receive the overtime pay for having worked non-stop for the past 13 months.
Assistant Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro on Wednesday said that President Rodrigo Duterte cannot take credit for the P1,000 World Teachers’ Day Incentive that public school teachers will receive in October.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has urged the Senate to immediately pass the measure that will exempt poll service compensation from income tax.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers said that the COVID-19 vaccination tracker of the Department of Education (DepEd) has revealed that only 37.91% of public school teachers have been vaccinated.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Thursday (July 22) said the Cabinet should decide whether only fully vaccinated teachers will be allowed to conduct face-to-face classes.
