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The Department of Education (DepEd) once again was slammed by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on, Tuesday, Aug. 10, over denying its teachers a “genuine rest” as a month into the supposed school break, directives and instructions for various tasks pour non-stop from the agency.
Our teachers are very tired after working non-stop for 13 months without proper compensation, overly delayed benefits, and without genuine work break since the start of the pandemic last year,
said ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio.
Pinagtaksilan na nga ang pangakong dagdag sahod, wala na ngang internet allowance, delayed at kulang ang benepisyo, pati ba naman ang karapatang magpahinga ay ipagkakait na rin ng gobyernong ito?,
he further added.
Furthermore, ACT also criticized DepEd for its non-action on its commitment to compensate 3-month worth of teachers’ overtime last school year with service credits and to request for budget to finance the 25% overtime premium.
He also enumerated the burdening tasks that were assigned to teachers after the end of classes in July 10 such as organizing graduation programs, reading of forms, and submission various reports that include the performance evaluation portfolio, Learning Delivery Modules, learners’ performance report, summary of quarterly summative assessments, feeding program, school based management documents, and more.
Dinadaya ng DepEd ang mga guro. Kunwari ay tapos na ang trabaho noong Hulyo 10 at sa Setyembre 13 pa ang pasukan pero kaliwa’t kanan ang utos nang walang opisyal na order ng pagtatrabaho para makalibre ito sa panibagong overtime ng mga guro,
Basilio said.
DepEd recently released DO 029, s. 2021 which detailed the school calendar for school year 2021–2022 and sets the class opening next month. However, he noted that the start of “Brigada Eskwela” was scheduled on Aug. 3 or – less than a month since the last SY came to a close while enrollment period is set to start on Aug. 16.
He pointed out that DepEd’s school calendar does not plan to let its teachers rest and claimed that this was “inhumane” and said that teachers are “not machines.”
ACT demands that DepEd immediately respond to these concerns as teachers have been burning out long before classes came to an end last July 10 as many have expressed experiences with physical and mental distress from the grueling year under distance learning.
The group has sent follow up letters to both DepEd and CSC on their agreements as regards teachers' OT pay and service credits.
Our teachers need a break, too. With meager salaries and delayed benefits, overwhelming workload, and excessive work hours, they are already being subjected to inhumane working conditions, and the least the government can do is give them time to recuperate and compensate them for their service,
Basilio said.
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Teachers’ group criticizes DepEd for non-stop work of teachers during school break, unpaid overtime
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