While House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro on Tuesday, Dec. 6, urged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to prioritize salary increase amid the 14-year-high inflation rate of 8 percent in November 2022, House Ways and Means chair and Albay 2nd...
A group of education workers on Sunday, Nov. 27, once again pushed for the adjustment to the salaries of teachers. (Photo courtesy of ACT Philippines) “We demand for a four-grade adjustment to teachers’ salaries, starting from the upgrading of Teacher I positions from salary grade 11 to salary...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
Employees in the Philippines can look forward to an average 5.5 percent increase in their salaries next year, up from 5.3 percent this year and marking a return to the pre-pandemic level in 2019, according to Mercer’s annual Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) 2022. The TRS surveyed 447 organizations...
A teachers’ group welcomed several bills on career progression that have been filed before the House of Representatives and are due for a public hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 23. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), in a statement, expressed full support for...
With the "worsening" economic crisis, public school teachers urged the government to implement relief measures as soon as possible. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) Hundreds of public school teachers under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and ACT National Capital Region (NCR) Union staged...
BACOLOD CITY -- Government workers here are expected to receive bonuses amounting to a minimum of P47,517 to a maximum of P148,891 before the year ends. After recovering from Covid-19 infection, regular, co-terminus, plantilla casual employees as well as retirees within the calendar year stand to...
A rookie congressman who is batting for bigger entry-level pay for Filipino nurses gave an idea Sunday, Nov. 20 of just how badly homegrown nurses want to leave the Philippines for the United States (US). (SJ Objio/ Unsplash) Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo, in a statement Sunday, Nov....
A group once again called on the government to increase the salary of teachers as they continue to lose a significant portion of their monthly pay to inflation. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) “With the country’s inflation rate hitting a 14-year high of 7.7 percent in October 2022, the...
BANGKOK, Thailand —Saudi Arabia crown prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud has announced that the Saudi government will pay around P30-billion unpaid salaries of 10,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who worked for construction firms that declared bankruptcy in 2015 and 2016....
A teachers’ group on Monday, Nov. 14, reiterated the need for a “higher budget” for the education sector as the country grapples with the learning crisis brought about by school closures amid the pandemic. (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) “There is a marked deflation in the grades of our...
MANILA BULLETIN Regular, casual, and contractual employees of the Antipolo City local government have started receiving the differential adjustments in their salaries as of Thursday, November 10. Most of the city hall employees might have received the adjustment, which was retroactive since January...