RANKING & EVALUATION OF TEACHER APPLICANTS SY 2016-2017

CSC clarifies period to avail of paternity leave

Republic Act No. 8187, also known as the Paternity Leave Act of 1996, grants paternity leave of seven days with full pay to all married male employees in the private and public sectors to enable the married male employee to effectively lend support and assistance to his wife in her period of recovery and in the nursing of their newly born child.

As the central human resource institution of the government, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) is mandated to formulate rules and regulations on the entitlement to leave of absence of officers and employees in the civil service.

The civil service omnibus rules on leave, which contain the implementing rules and regulations of RA 8187 for the public sector, provide the conditions for the grant of paternity leave. However, the rules originally did not specify the period within which the leave may be availed of.

The CSC deemed it necessary to harmonize the public sector policy on availing paternity leave with that of the private sector through the issuance of CSC Resolution No. 1501531 promulgated on Dec. 21, 2015.

Section 20 of the rules now reads as: “Paternity leave of seven days shall be non-cumulative and strictly non-convertible to cash. The same may be enjoyed either in a continuous or in an intermittent manner by the employee on the days immediately, before, during, and after the childbirth or miscarriage of his legitimate spouse. Said leave shall be availed of not later than 60 days after the date of the child’s delivery.”

All rules, regulations, and issuances that are inconsistent with the resolution are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.

-From the Civil Service Commission

DO 2, s. 2016 - Implementation of P3,500.00 Net Take Home Pay for DepEd Personnel

To: Undersecretaries
Assistant Secretaries
Bureau and Service Directors
Regional Directors
Schools Division Superintendents
Public Elementary and Secondary Schools Heads
All Others Concerned

1. The Department of Education (DepEd) shall implement the Authorized Deductions provided in Section 52 of the General Provisions of the Republic Act (RA) No. 10717, General Appropriations Act (GAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, entitled An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines from January One to December Thirty One, Two Thousand and Sixteen, and for Other Purposes, which is quoted as follows:

Section 52. Authorized Deductions. Deductions from salaries and other benefits accruing to any government employee, chargeable against the appropriations for Personnel Services, may be allowed for the payment of individual employee’s contributions or obligations due the following, and in the order of preference stated below:

    a) The BIR, PHILHEALTH, GSIS and HDMF;    b) Non-stock savings and loan associations, and mutual benefits associations duly operating under existing laws, which are managed by and/or for the benefit of government employees;

    c) Associations, cooperatives, or provident funds organized and managed by government employees for their benefit and welfare;

    d) GFIs authorized by law and accredited by appropriate government regulating bodies to engage in lending;

    e) Licensed insurance companies; and

Thrift banks and rural banks accredited by the BSP.

In no case shall the foregoing deductions reduce the employee’s monthly net take home pay to an amount lower than Three Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P 3,500.00).

2. In accordance with the above provision, new deductions may not be allowed if these deductions would reduce the net take home pay of borrowing employees to an amount lower than Three Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P3,500.00) threshold.

3. However, it is recognized that existing deductions before the issuance of this Order may have already reduced the net take home pay of borrowing employees below the P3,500.00 threshold, since the previous threshold before the effectivity of 2016 GAA was only Three Thousand Pesos (P3,000.00). It is further considered that discontinuing or reducing existing deductions would be very disruptive, as it would require significant changes in the payroll system, and it may lead to the exercise of discretion as to which deductions to retain or postpone. More importantly, it would have implications on contractual agreements between the borrowers and the lenders, consistent with the constitutional guarantee that no law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be passed (Article III, Section 10, 1987 Philippine Constitution), and the possible imposition of penalties in case of violations thereof.

4. Therefore, the new threshold of P3,500.00 would apply to new deductions only. Deductions for newly-granted loans would not be effected unless the P3,500.00 threshold is satisfied. Moreover, queued deductions, that is amortizations for previously granted loans that have not been deducted yet from borrowing employee’s salary, are considered new deductions for purposes of this Order. Thus, queued deductions may not be effected unless the P3,500.00 threshold is observed. However, this, notwithstanding the order of priority for previously queued deductions, would remain. When the salary threshold allows, the loan amortization that is ahead of the queue would be the first to be deducted from the borrowing employee’s salary.

5. The concerned personnel in the payroll and other involved units/offices in the central, regional and schools division offices, as well as the fiscally autonomous secondary schools, are hereby instructed to strictly enforce this Order.

6.Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Order is directed.



(Sgd.) BR. ARMIN A. LUISTRO FSC
Secretary


Reference: DepEd Order No.: 1, s. 2014

DO 54, s. 2015 - Amendment to DepEd Order No. 55, 2003 (Increase of Payment of Loyalty Cash Gift)

December 8, 2015

DO 54, s. 2015

Amendment to DepEd Order No. 55, 2003 (Increase of Payment of Loyalty Cash Gift)

To:     Undersecretaries
          Assistant Secretaries
          Bureau and Service Directors
          Directors of Services, Centers and Heads of Units
          Regional Directors
          Schools Division Superintendents

         All Others Concerned

1. Pursuant to the Civil Service Commission Memorandum Circular No. 06, s. 2002, entitled Revised Policies on the Grant of Loyalty Award, the payment of Loyalty Cash Award (LCA) was increased to an amount not less than P 500.00 but not more than P 1,000.00 for every year of service to qualified officials and employees.
2. In view of this,  Paragraph 2 of DepEd Order No. 55, s. 2003 which states that, In this connection, the payment of such cash gift  to all officials and employees of the Department shall be increased to P 500.00 from the old rate of P 300.00 per year of service, is hereby amended as follows:

“2. In this connection, the payment of such cash gift to all officials  and  employees  of  the  Department  shall  be  increased  to P 1,000.00 for every year of service of the qualified official/employee.”

3. This  is  also in line  with  the Commission  on   Audit  Circular  No. 2013-003A s. 2013 (copy enclosed), which prescribed revised rates of the LCA.
4. The loyalty cash award is given to an official/employee who has completed at least 10 years, and every five years thereafter, of continuous and satisfactory service in the government.
5. Immediate dissemination of and compliance with this Order is directed.

  (Sgd.) BR. ARMIN A. LUISTRO FSC
Secretary

Encl.: As stated

References:
DepEd Order (No. 55, s. 2003)
DepEd Memorandum No. 131, s. 2013

To be indicated in the Perpetual Index under the following subjects:
ALLOWANCES
AMENDMENT
BENEFITS
EMPLOYEES
LEGISLATIONS
OFFICIALS

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Salary Increase for Teachers, "Inconsiderate" & "Negligible" 10K extra pay for public school teachers if Duterte-Cayetano wins in 2016

Under the tandem of Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Alan Cayetano, the two politikos vowed that public school teachers will be granted an additional P 10,000 compensation over and above the Salary Standardization Law (SSL).

“Tatapusin natin ang malulungkot na pasko ng ating mga guro. Hindi dapat sila tinitipid at kinakaligtaan. Makakaasa ang ating mga guro ng matapang na solusyon at mabilis na aksyon para itaas ang kanilang mga sahod at iba pang benepisyo,” Cayetano said.

The senator lambasted the government’s proposed salary increase for public school teachers calling it “inconsiderate” and “negligible.”
Click this link to see the 14 Senators who voted YES for SSL
Cayetano said the government’s proposed entry-level position of teachers is to grant an additional amount of P2, 205.00 from the present P18, 549.00 or a meager increase of less than 12%, spread over a period of four years, making the annual increase of a little more than P500.00, the lowest in recent history.

“Instead of repairing the government’s erroneous compensation scheme for teachers, which past and present salary laws classified teachers as among the lowest paid government professionals, its proposed salary increase only reinforced this flawed system,” Cayetano said.

“This what Mayor Duterte and I want to end. We will restore the dignity of the teaching profession. No more cheapskate wage increases which do not address burdensome taxes, cost of living and living conditions in general,” Cayetano added.

Cayetano said their proposal is part of his Senate Bill 94, that grants public school teachers, locally-funded teachers, non-teaching personnel, and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) additional compensation

Cities With Christmas Bonus/Incentives Announcements

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CEBU

DAVAO

DAVAO CITY EMPLOYEES TO GET BONUS

Monday, 08 December 2014 22:34
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

The Davao City Government will release the Christmas bonus for its employees before the last working day before Christmas.

In yesterday’s flag raising ceremony at the City Hall, city administrator J. Meclchor V. Quitain announced that the city has already found the source of funds for the employes’ Productivity Incentive Allowance.

But Quitain said City Hall will formulate a mechanism on how to release the bonus because he is worried about employees who have debts from loan sharks.

“Give us time to think it over because I am concerned with people still have unpaid loans. That money, if I understand that if it will be placed in the ATM, there is somebody who will get it ahead of you,” Quitain told the employees.
“That money is reserved for the family. Sana yung mga nagpapautang, ay may paki-usap din ako sainyo, huwag niyo naman galawin yung bonus ng mga empleyado at least for this Christmas. Hindi naman yan kasama sa usapan. Ibigay niyo na yan sa kanila (To the money lenders, I am asking that you don’t take the bonus of the employees at least for this Christmas. That is not included in your agreement. Just give to them),” he added.
Quitain also told the employees not to borrow money from lenders in anticipation of their bonus.
“Kayo naman, huwag na kayong umutang. Hindi pa nga narelease, inutang na niyo,” Quitain said.
In an interview with Edge Davao, City Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) head Erwin Alaparaque said the local finance committee (LFC) of the executive department will hasten the proceedings so that it will be endorsed to the City Council. 

Alparaque said the LFC already endorsed its resolution to Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and it is now waiting for his signature.
“Then the request from the city mayor to appropriate funds for the grant and payment of Productivity Incentive Allowancewould be endorsed to the City Council,” he said.
 
Alparaque said the bonus for employees will be included for the Supplemental Budget No. 2 this year.

He said as soon as the City Council approves within next week, the bonus will immediately be released to the employees.
 
Alparaque said the LFC recommended to draw the fund from the savings on Personal Services (PS) and Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE).
 
He said all regular, contract of service, and job order government workers will get their bonus as soon as the City Council approves it.
 
He said he did not know if there would be an increase from last year’s P72 million allocation for the bonus, but regular employees will get P10,000 bonus each while the job order and contract of service will get P5,000 each.

Alparaque said the city government has a total 12, 827 employees: 2,827 are plantilla or regular employees, 4,242 are job order employees, and 5,365 contract of service employees.

(C) EDGEDAVAO.NET, DEC 12, 2015

Teachers receive P10T cash aid

CHEERFUL. Just in time for the Christmas holidays, around 5,500 public school teachers in Cebu City receive a cash assistance of P10,000 from City Hall. (Sun.Star Foto/Amper Campaña)

AROUND 5,500 public elementary and secondary school teachers received their P10,000 assistance from the Cebu City Government yesterday.

But unlike most of the teachers, 21-year-old Asmah Agorig will not be spending her cash aid for the Christmas. Because she is a Muslim, Agorig will be using her cash gift to pay for her tuition after she enrolled as an education major student. Agorig teaches Arabic language at the Zapatera Elementary School. Although she has been teaching for three years by virtue of her skill in the foreign language, Agorig said she has yet to complete her bachelor’s degree. She just needs to pass the qualifying exam to be able to teach. Agorig is now in her second year in her college education.

“I am thankful that the City gave us the financial assistance because it will really help in our expenses,” Agorig told Sun.Star Cebu.

Yesterday was the first time for her to get her P10,000 financial assistance.

For Alma Karen Oporto, a portion of the cash assistance will be shared with her students during their Christmas party on Friday. Oporto is a grade 5 teacher in Banilad Elementary School. “Mohatag sad ko ug share sa akong mga pupils, mopuno ko gamay para sa among Christmas party aron malipay sad ang mga bata(I will share this with my pupils, I will contribute to their Christmas party so the kids will be happy),” she said.

Aside from it, most of her cash aid will be spent for her child’s tuition.

Budget

In an interview yesterday, Local School Board Chief Raddy Diola said the City set aside P55 million under this year’s annual budget for the teachers’ cash aid.

Even if it was given in December, Diola clarified that the P10,000 given to the teachers is not a bonus, but an assistance the City has been giving under suspended Mayor Michael Rama’s administration.

There are at least 140 public elementary and high schools in the city. City Treasurer Diwa Cuevas said teachers who failed to claim their financial assistance during the scheduled distribution yesterday can still claim it until December 23 at the City Treasurer’s Office

Sama-sama po Tayong Lumagda sa Petition na ito Upang Labanan ang SSL

I outcry for all the teachers and the below the salary grade 12... My appeal is, DO NOT VOTE on their candidacy this coming election. Yan lang ang maigaganti natin sa kanila... The SSL 2015 relied on the grant of bonuses instead of increasing the salaries wherein form the name of the bill itself states that it is SALARY STANDARDIZATION. Why will you rely on those bonuses? PS. President PNOY, First time in history din na WALA kaming na-receive na YEAR-END BONUS. Only on your term. Mahusay ka! Dahil dyan, 

 SAMA-SAMA PO TAYO

SIGN THE PETITION HERE: (CLICK THE LINK)

https://www.change.org/p/teachers-police-army-pnp-deped-teachers-need-decent-pay-no-to-ssl-no-to-lp

Teachers and all ordinary workers, there should be a MASS CAMPAIGN that will inform all to zero vote for LP Candidates and those who voted the bill... I saw the list of those who Fourteen Senators voted here: http://depeddocs.blogspot.com/2015/12/ssl-2015-heres-list-of-those-who-voted.html