Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano also known as the Duterte-Cayetano tandem for the 2016 national elections aired their reactions in the proposed Salary Standardization Law (SSL 2015) as they noted that the government only gives a meager sums for the country’s workers in the public sectors.
The Duterte-Cayetano tandem vowed to give additional compensation to public school teachers in a statement released on Sunday, if elected in the 2016 national elections. They noted that they will make ways to grant an additional P10,000 compensation on top of the increase under the SSL for teachers.
Sen. Alan Pter Cayetano also called the sums under the proposed SSL 2015 as “inconsiderate” and “negligible” for public school teachers because it only grans and increase of P2,205 from the current salary grade of P18,549, or a 12 percent increase over a period of four years.
Under the SSL, the pay for Teacher 1 would increase to P19,077 in the first year of implementation in 2016, P19,620 in 2017, P20,179 in 2018, and P20,754 in 2019.
Sen. Cayetano also clarified that the additional P10,000 compensation is a provision in his proposed Senate Bill 94, which grants public school teachers, locally-funded teachers, non-teaching personnel, and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education additional compensation.
Congress failed to pass the proposed SSL 2015 before it had its Christmas break this year. The House of Representatives has yet to ratify it because the Senate has not passed it yet on third reading. Congress will pass it on final reading when it resumes from break on Jan. 19, 2016.