The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) urged the AO25 Inter-Agency Task Force (AO25 IATF), the body responsible for the approval of Performance-based Bonus (PBB) of government employees, to grant the immediate release of PBB 2019 to all Department of Education’s (DepEd) teaching and non-teaching personnel, citing the need to urgently address ‘palpable health, economic threats and effects of the COVID-19’ that have affected thousands of public school teachers and non-teaching personnel nationwide.
In a letter sent yesterday, the group appealed on humanitarian grounds the need for immediate relief to all teaching and non-teaching personnel who have acted well-beyond their duty to ensure education continuity amid the pandemic regardless of ‘low salaries, meager benefits and lack of genuinely free health care services,’ and who have ‘diligently and punctually complied with all the requirements’ despite being burdensome.
“Our education workers have practically nothing left. Nagmahal ang presyo ng mga bilihin at patuloy ang gastos sa distance learning pero ang mga karampatang benepisyo, wala pa rin. Inabot na ng 2021 ang kanilang utang na PBB 2019, hanggang kailan nila paghihintayin ang mga guro at kawani?,” asked Raymond Basilio, ACT Secretary-General.
The PBB is supposed to be an incentive for outstanding performance in civil service for dedicatedly delivering on duties and responsibilities. Basilio asserted that DepEd employees have “more than delivered their duties as they practically filled in the shortcomings of the government in the implementation of the distance learning.
“On top of the numerous duties of our teachers, they diligently met the voluminous documentary requirements to qualify for this benefit as their meager salaries simply could not sustain their basic needs. It is the height of insensitivity of those concerned to be slacking in their duty to process the PBB on time,” lamented Basilio.
Basilio said that the delayed release of PBB for DepEd employees have become a perennial problem in the last three years as our education workers have always been the last of the civil servants to receive the bonus.
“Now, where is the moral ascendancy of these offices who evaluate our performance when they themselves perform poorly on their duties?” criticized Basilio.
Urgent Appeal to Grant and Release of PBB 2019 to all DepEd Teaching and Non-Teaching Personnel
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Well said! Sana lang hindi bingi ang mga concerned authorities.
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