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Pansamantalang nagdiriwang ang libu-libong mga guro sa pamumuno ng Action and Solidarity for the Empowerment of Teachers sa pag-apruba ng Bicameral Conference Committee sa binago at pinal na bersyon ng Senate House Joint Resolution nitong nakaraang lingo.

 

Mas kilala bilang Salary Standardization III, layunin ng pinagtibay na Joint Resolution na rebisahin at i-standardize ang sistema ng pasahod, pabenepisyo at pagkaklasipika ng mga trabaho sa gobyerno para diumna maiangat ang pamumuhay ng mga kawani sa harap ng lumalalang krisis sa bansa.




TAGUMPAY NG KILOS-PROTESTA NG ABRIL 13 AT MAYO 25

 

Ayon sa kinatawan ng ASSERT na dumalo sa pulong ng Bicam noong Hunyo 1, isinama sa binagong bersyon ang mga amyendang iginiit ng mga gurong nagmartsa’s nagrali sa Senado noong Mayo 25 para harangin ang kontra-guro’t, kontra-kawaning mga nilalaman ng Senate, Joint Resolution No.23 na noo’y masugid na isinusulong nina Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile at Sen. Edgardo Angara. 

 

Matatandaang sa muling pagbubukas ng sesyon sa Kamara nitong Abril 13, nauna nang hinarang ng mga gurong nagpiket sa Batasan mula Gitnang Luzon at Metro manila ang House Joint Resolution No.24 na isa ring kahalintulad na bersyong isinusulong nina Speaker Prospero Nograles at mga maka-administrasyong mambabatas.

 

DALAWANG “KILL BILLS”

 

“Bilang substitute pay proposals, na dinisenyo ng DBM-Malakanyang, layunin ng dalawang resolution nina Nograles-Cua-Enrile-Angara na patayin ang lahat ng mga nakabinbing panukalang batas sa pasahod kasama na ang mungkahing dagdag na P3,000 taun-taon (o P9,000 sa loob ng 3 taon) sa kasalukuyang sahod ng mga gurong pampubliko”, paliwanag ni James pagaduan, pambansang pangulo ng ASSERT at lider-pangulo ng Bataan Public School Teachers and Employees Association. 

 

‘Sa kalaunan, naging HJR 36 ang pamatay sa House Bills 4734 , 4380 at 5213 at SJR 26 naman ang kumitil sa Senate Bill 2408”, paglilinaw pa ni James Pagaduan. (Nasa pahina ___ ang pangalan ng mga Congressmen, district at partylist na nasa likod ng HJR 36 killer resolution.

 

PAG-AMYENDANG LABAG SA KONSTITUSYON NG 1987

 

Kabilang sa mga tinutulan ng mga guro ang balak na pagbibigay sa Presidente at DBM ng kapangyarihan mag-amyenda ng mga batas para bawasan at pagtatanggalin ang mga benepisyo’t proteksyong dati nang tinatamasa at ipapatupad pa sa ilalim ng kanilang Magna Carta at umiiral na mga batas.

 

Labag anila ito sa paghihiwalay ng kapangyarihang lehislatibo, ehekutibo at hudikatura na isang mahalagang sandigan ng pamamahala- presidential system ayon sa Saligang Batas.

 

Salungat din ito at ang balak na panatilihin ang isang hiwalay at mas mataas na sistema ng compensation at job classification para sa government-owned and-controlled corporations at government financial institutions sa “pantay  na proteksyon” na tinatadhana ng Saligang Batas.

 

Diskriminasyon vs. Kontraktwals




“ Hindi rin tayo papayag sa balak nilang  gawing legal ang mahabang panahong pananatiling kontrakwal, job order, teacher aide o volunteer ng may 37,000 gurong pasado sa Licensure Examination for Teachers sa bansa at ipwera sila sa mga tatanggap simula sa Hulyo ng mga biyayang bagong batas sa pasahod,”mariing pahayag ni Jane Farinas, Bise President eng ASSERT at Kalihim ng Federation of Marikina Public School Teachers.

 

Ipinaalala Ni Farinas sa mga kagawad ng House and Senate Committeees on Education na mula pa noong 1966 matagal nang pinag-uutos ng Seksyon 4, 5, 17 at 18 ng RA 4670 ang awtomatikong pagbibigay ng permanenteng appointment sa lahat ng mga gurong eligible o nakapasa sa LET gayundin kapantay na sahod, benepisyo’t proteksyong tinatamasa ng mga gurong regular.

 

Roxas at Cayetanos, tsampyon ng Magna Carta sa Senado




 

Samantala, pinamunuan ni Senador Mar Roxas, Chairman ng Senate Committee on Education ang pagtitiyak sa ilalim ng Item 6 ng Joint Resolution na walang mababawas sa bilang at halaga ng mga benepisyong tinatanggap na o popondohan pa sa ilalim ng RA 4670 o Magna Carta.

 

Nilinaw din ng Senador sa kanyang interpelasyon na kung meron mang babaguhin sa mga probisyonng nakapaloob dito at para  maipatupad ang mga hindi pa naippapatupad na probisyon nito.

 

 

Salary Grade 11 Taasan pa!

 

Ito naman ang naging reaksyon nina Senadora Pia at Senador Alan Peter Cayetano suhestyon ng DBM na itaas ng 1 grade lamang.

 

“ Hindi sapat ang pag-adjust ng isa lamang salary grade sa ating mga guro, dapat na salary grade ng ating mga pampublikong guro hanggang abutin nya ang tamang grade na karapat dapat sa kanyang propesyon, pipirmahan ko lamang ang pinagsanib na resolusyong ito kung matitiyak na mag-aadjust at maiitatama ang kanilang salary grade banggit ng Senadora na sinang-ayunan naman in principle ng mga miyembro ng Bicam.###

   

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Nation
Written by Fernan Marasigan / Reporter   
Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:55

LESS than two weeks after President Arroyo certified it as urgent, the House of Representatives, in plenary session, approved on Wednesday night Joint Resolution 36 that would upgrade, rationalize and standardize compensation of all government employees.

Under the resolution the salary adjustment for State workers will be implemented first on July 1 and will be given in four tranches from 2009 to 2012.

House leaders said the program applies to all civilian government personnel, regardless of status. Military, police and other uniformed personnel are covered by a separate compensation system provided for under a substitute resolution to Joint Resolution 24.

They reiterated that the salary adjustment prescribed for the incumbent President, Vice President and members of Congress shall take effect only after the expiration of their terms.

Arroyo’s certification of the measure’s urgency made possible the simultaneous approval on second and final reading by the chamber in plenary session, Speaker Prospero Nograles said.

Under the resolution, the initial implementation shall be charged from the 2009 national government budget and from the savings of the different agencies. The succeeding tranches shall be included in the annual general appropriations act.

Besides the executive, legislative and judicial branches, those covered include the constitutional commissions, state universities and colleges, government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs), government financial institutions and local governments (GFIs).            

As for the GOCCs and GFIs, the amount needed shall be charged against their respective corporate funds.

All positions in the government shall be grouped into three categories, namely subprofessional or positions involved in manual or clerical work in support of office operations, or those engaged in arts, crafts and trades; professional or positions involved in the exercise of profession or application of knowledge acquired through formal education and training and executive or managerial positions involved in the executive, legislative and judicial functions.

In the proposed salary schedules, the present 33 salary grades and eight steps per salary grade shall be retained. The differences, however, between salary grades shall be rationalized to avoid overlaps.

Thesystem also follows the principle of “nondiminution of benefits.”

Government agencies authorized by law to have their own compensation and position classification system shall be governed by their respective own systems.

In addition to the resolution, the House, which adjourns sine die on June 5, also approved on third reading 57 local bills, eight local measures on second reading, adopted the Senate version of House Bill (HB) 3618 or the National Police Education Requirement Bill and approved the Conference Committee report on Senate Bill 2396 and HB 4237 or the Magna Carta of Women.

It also concurred with the Senate amendments on four other local bills on education, the judiciary and grants of franchises.

RESOLUTION APPEALING TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO REJECT JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 24 GIVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT EXTRA LEGISLATIVE AND QUASI-JUDICIAL POWERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPENSATION AND POSITION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IN THE GOVERNMENT FOR BEING AGAINST THE INTEREST OF OUR 1.2 MILLION GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND TEACHERS

 

Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24 sponsored by House Speaker Prospero Nograles of Davao City and providing for a four-year 8 percent yearly increase in the monthly pay of rank-and-file government workers was filed in contention with House Bills 4734 and 5213 proposing, on the other hand, a Php 3,000 yearly salary increase for public school teachers in three years starting 2009;

 

Whereas, said joint resolution has been introduced to be the third in a series of government moves (R.A. 6758 in 1989 and Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994) to standardize the pay and position classification system in the public sector including those in  government-owned and-controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs);

 

Whereas, the ambiguous wordings and phraseology of the first two salary laws and their confiscatory interpretative implementation by the DBM have been the source of protracted court battles, disappointments and demoralization of many government workers as they failed to deliver the promised relief that said laws envisioned;

 

Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24, in its present form and substance, aims not only to peg government workers and teachers’ pay at below poverty levels, reduce and eventually abolish existing hard-won benefits, legalize contractualization, job insecurities and precarious conditions of work but also to leave, but this time, everything to Malacañang and DBM to implement, interpret, and decide all controversies arising from the resolution’s ambiguous provisions, including the authority to amend and modify existing general and special laws;

 

Whereas, such delegation of extra-legislative power to the President and DBM by our lawmakers who are constitutionally mandated to exclusively exercise such power will not only violate the principle of separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution but will also be tantamount to an abandonment of their sworn duties and serious betrayal of those who elected them to office;

 

Whereas, a similar delegation by way of Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994, though did not yet include the power to amend or modify existing laws, still has enabled a scheming DBM to under-implement at will what would have been a 4-year salary increase in 4 equal tranches into a 4-year pay hike in 5 unequal tranches – a clever move that has robbed all public school teachers of significant sums in this wise;

 

SALARY INCREASE OF PHP 5 503(PHP (8 605 – PHP 3 102) DISTRIBUTED IN 4 EQUAL TRANCHES PER JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1

of 1994

HOW DBM IMPLEMENTED THE 4-YEAR SALARY INCREASE UNDER THE JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1 of 1994

 

Yearly Increase Paid Monthly

 

Differential x No. of Months

 

Subtotals

 

1994 January ro December PHP 1 376

PHP 800

(576) x 13

PHP 7 488

1995 January to December PHP 1 376

PHP 1 000

(376 + 576) x 13

PHP 12 376

1996 January to December PHP 1 376

PHP 1 111

(265 + 952) x 13

PHP 15 821

1997 January to December PHP 1 376

(Jan-Oct) PHP 1 296

(Nov-Dec ‘99) PHP 1 296

296 + 1217

X 11  

PHP 14 256

 

TOTAL AMOUNT SHORTCHANGED

PHP 49 941

 

Whereas, there is an urgent need to consolidate House Bill Nos. 4734, 4380 and 5213 to reciprocate the multi-partisan efforts at the Senate which made possible the early approval of Consolidated Senate Bill 2408 in July of 2008;

 

Foregoing premises considered, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED to appeal to all members of the House of Representatives to reject Joint Resolution No. 24 for being against the interest of our 1.2 million government workers and teachers

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED to reproduce copies of this Resolution for distribution to all public schools for their teachers’ support signatures and presentation to in lobbying with their elected congressional representatives for the latter’s commitment and support.

 

Done this ninetenth day of February 2009 during the Consultative Meeting of ASSERT- NCR with other teachers organizations at the Expo Centro, Araneta Center Cubao, Quezon City

 

 

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(Please submit a photocopy of this duly accomplished resolution personally or by express mail to ASSERT’s National Office at the stated address for file and monitoring purposes)