Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday vowed to pursue measures aimed at granting higher salaries for teachers saying this would further help boost their morale. “Isa sa ating mga adbokasiya ay pataasin ang moral ng ating mga guro at hikayatin ang mga estudyante natin na kumuha ng kurso sa...
Reelectionist Senator Risa Hontiveros has committed to push for better pay and benefits for teaching and non-teaching personnel as she bared her education agenda on Friday, Feb. 11. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Photo courtesy of Hontiveros Office) During the Senatorial forum of the Alliance of...
Employees who will report to work on special non-working days of Feb. 1, which was is Chinese New Year, and on Feb. 25, which is the EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary, will get full-pay plus 30 percent of their basic wages. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday slammed the reported hacking of teachers’ bank accounts by still unidentified “unscrupulous individuals” whom he said are concocting all kinds of methods to steal money via online and other digital means. Earlier in the day, the Teachers’ Dignity...
A group of education workers urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to suspend the implementation of the twice a month salary scheme noting that it brings more harm than good. (Photo from DepEd) “To put it simply, the new salary scheme is more trouble than it’s worth,” said Alliance of...
Instead of splitting the release of their salaries, a group on Monday, Nov. 8 urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to work on the “real issue” the pay hike for teachers. (FILE PHOTO / DEPED) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said this after DepEd announced its plan to release...
Mounting complaints on salary delays have been raised by contact tracers who were hired by the government to help identify and locate those who have close contacts with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-infected persons. But Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary...
(Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) A group of nurses has called on the government to give the country's healthcare workers better working conditions and salary. In a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Filipino Nurses United (FNU) said “the conditions of Filipino nurses have not...
The House of Representatives' recent plenary budget deliberation has exposed some shortcomings in the Philippine educational sector, its members lamented. (DepEd/File Photo) Among the shortcomings were the zero appropriation for four state universities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim...
All teachers and non-teaching personnel who will be participating in the pilot implementation of limited face-to-face classes need to be vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Education (DepEd) on Monday, Sept. 27, said. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) During the virtual...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has admitted to being in New York in the United States (US) to seek election to what he described as a "non-full time job" that "has no salary". Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque and the American flag (Photos from MANILA BULLETIN, Unsplash) "Narito po tayo...
The People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) Management has expressed its full support to PTV employees as they sought a salary adjustment amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. PTV Management statement on the open letter of PTV employees to President Duterte. The PTNI issued the...
