After a
huge increment on the compensation of military and police work force, President
Rodrigo Duterte emphasized his guarantee to build the pay public school
teachers next.
During a speech before public school teachers and Principals in
Davao City on May 4, Duterte was heard
saying, "I will raise your compensation next," to which the group
noisily give a shout out to.
However, the
President said doubling their salary may still not be possible at this time.
“But it would
not be doubled. We can’t afford. I’m not blaming anybody, but simply there are
too many Filipinos. We lack resources,” he said.
In a Cabinet meeting in
Malacañang last January, Duterte had prior said he needed to expand teachers’pay rates.
He later certified it on
the said discourse notwithstanding saying that he needed to build it by up to
seven-overlap.
“Remember, your pay will
improve, honest, wait for it, but it will be incremental. It cannot be done at
once, you are too many. You will have five times more or seven times more than
soldiers,” he said.
Earlier this year, the President specifically instructed the
Department of Budget Management and all other agencies to find means to
increase the salary of teachers after the second reform package has taken
place.
At that time, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque did not
disclose how much increase the President wanted for the teachers.
“He did not say how much but he says that they will have to be
tangible results of any implementation of the second tax reform package and he
said that that should be the increase in teachers. “But judging by
what he wanted for the PNP and the AFP, it could be that he is also aiming to
double the entry salary for teachers,” Roque said.
Source: Inquirer
No comments:
Post a Comment