DepEd issues policy on 'overload pay' for public school teachers
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The Department of Education (DepEd) has issued a policy “rationalizing the workload and defining the ancillary tasks of public school teachers.”
DepEd Order 05 Series of 2024 also provides overload pay and compensation for teacher ancillary tasks and teaching-related assignments.
Under the policy, the following guidelines aim to build a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning:
a. Teachers shall render eight hours of service per day, of which six hours shall be devoted to actual classroom teaching.
b. The remaining two hours shall be allotted for work incidental to the normal teaching duties which may be spent within or outside the school premises.
c. Other teaching-related work, such as but not limited to being a school coordinator, shall be duly compensated in accordance with Section 14 of RA 4670.
d. In exigency of service, actual classroom teaching in excess of the required six hours shall be compensated through payment of teaching overload, provided that it does not exceed two hours per day.
The policy further specified that teachers’ ancillary tasks should be under the following categories: Curriculum Planning, Curriculum Delivery and Pedagogy, Assessment of Learner’s Progress, and Homeroom Guidance and Management.
Meanwhile, other tasks that do not fall under the specified teaching-related and ancillary tasks of the teachers shall be delegated to the schools’ administrative personnel.
Under the policy, payment for teaching overload shall be made every quarter, subject to the extent of allotment for the purpose.
Long Overdue
House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro of ACT Teachers party-list lauded the Department of Education’s (DepEd) decision to provide payment for overload units.
“This is a long overdue recognition of the overwhelming workload of our teachers, which has been a decade-long struggle for us. Finally, teachers will be compensated for work done over and above their regular workload and beyond their regular working hours,” Castro said.
Castro also said that the DepEd order was a result of the series of dialogues and consultations between DepEd, Civil Service Commission and the ACT Teachers Partylist and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.
“Matagal nang ipinaglalaban ng ACT Teachers Partylist ang pagpapatupad ng overload pay,” she added.
(We have been fighting for this overload pay.)
Former lawmaker and ACT Teachers president Antonio Tinio also lauded DepEd’s move which and called it a “major step forward.”
“While the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers has been a law since 1966, this is the first time that the provisions on overload pay and teaching hours will actually be implemented through a Department Order,” said Tinio.
“This is a major step forward in addressing the longstanding issues of teacher workload and welfare,” added Tinio. —Jamil Santos with Llanesca T. Panti/ VAL, GMA Integrated News
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