Trillanes seeks to hike teachers’ pay

SENATOR Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV has filed a bill seeking to raise the minimum pay of public school teachers to salary grade 20 or equivalent to P36,567.00 per month.

The proposed salary grade is in accordance with the 4th tranche of the implementation of the Salary Standardization Law scheduled this month. At present, the basic salary of public school teachers is pegged at grade 11 or about P18,549.00 a month.

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P35,567 Pay For Teachers Proposed

Senator Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV has proposed close to 100 percent monthly salary increase for the country’s more than 500,000 public school teachers from the current P18,549 to P35,567.

If the measure becomes a law, the government stands to spend over P18 billion a month or P219 billion a year for the public school teachers’ salaries.

The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) welcomed Trillanes’ proposal.

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1.1-M State Workers Get Pay Increase

Around 1.1 million government workers will receive another salary increase one month earlier than planned, President Benigno S. Aquino III announced Sunday.

The President revealed the “substantial” salary adjustment for state employees ahead of the Labor Day celebration, saying this will be the fourth and final tranche of the implementation of the Salary Standardization Law III (SSL III).

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