1. Enhance the right of teachers to professional advancement.

2. Assign the second highest budgetary priority to education,

next to medicine.
3. Ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share
of the best available talents through adequate
remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and
fulfillment.
1. Punishment against any person guilty of assault against
teaching personnel.
2. According due respect and protection for teachers who are
considered persons in authority.
1. Academic freedom particularly with regard to teaching
methods.
2. The right to be free from compulsory assignment not
related to their duties defined in their appointment or
employment contracts unless given additional
compensation.
3. Freedom from involuntary contributions.
4. Compensations for employment injuries in accordance with
existing laws.
5. Establishing, joining, maintaining labor organization of
their choice to promote their welfare and defend their
interest.
6. Consent for transfer from one station to another where
there is urgent need.
7. Employment in the same locality for those who are married
whenever possible.
8. A maximum of 6 hours actual teaching hours per day.
9. More than 6 hours of teaching but not exceeding 8 hours.
10.An additional compensation of at least 25% of his regular
remuneration after the teacher has completed at least six
hours of actual classroom teaching in a day.
11.Salary scales of teachers that provide for a gradual
progression from a minimum to a maximum salary by
means of regular increments, granted automatically after
three years, if the efficiency rating of the teacher
concerned is satisfactory.
12.The salary scales appropriated by a city, municipal,
municipal district, or provincial government shall not be
lower than those provided for teachers of the National
Government.
13.Without exception Special Hardship Allowances.
14.Special hardship allowances equivalent to at least 25% of
their monthly salary for those who qualify.
15.A study leave not exceeding one school year maybe
granted to teachers who have rendered at least 7 years in
service.
16.Enjoy a compensation allowed for one year provided study
leave subject to the condition that the teachers takes the
regular study load and passes at least 75% of his course.
17.A study leave of more than one year provided permitted by
the Secretary of Education but without compensation.
18.An indefinite sick leave of absence when the nature of the
illness demands a long treatment that will exceed one year
at the least.
19.One range salary raise upon retirement for those who have
fulfilled the age and service requirements of the applicable
retirement laws which shall be the basis of the
computation of the lump sum of the retirement pay and
the monthly benefits thereafter.
20.Hardship allowance for those who teach in multi-grade
classes, mobile teachers and Non-formal Education or
Alternative Learning System (ALS) Coordinators are entitled
to hardship allowance.
21.Stability of employment and security of tenure under
existing laws.
22.Safeguard in disciplinary procedure.
Other Privileges of the
Teaching Personnel in
the Public and Private
Schools
Commonwealth Act No. 647, as amended by Rep. Acts No. 270
and 1564, provides maternity leave to regular and temporary
female who are married.
Regular teachers with two and a half or more years of
service are entitled to 60 days of maternity leave with full pay,
while those with less than two and a half years of service are
entitled to 60 days, with half pay.
Temporary teachers with at least two years of service are
entitled to 60 days of maternity leave with half pay.
(Commonwealth Act No. 186, as amended by Rep. Act
Nos. 660 and 1616)
Provides for life and retirement insurance.
Membership in the GSIS is compulsory upon all
teachers, except those who are substitute, upon all
regularly and permanently appointed school
employees.
 All teachers, except those who are on vacation and sick leave
basis are on the teacher’s leave basis. They are all entitled to
pay during the Christmas and long vacations.
Temporary teachers who have served at least six months are
also entitled to vacation pay. Teacher’s vacation pay may be
commuted or paid in advance.
 A teacher on the teacher’s leave basis is
given service credit when he is asked to
work during the vacation period.
This service credit may be used to offset
past and future absences due to illness or
other reasonable causes.
 Public school teachers are allowed to borrow
money from the Government Insurance System,
an amount not to exceed his monthly salary.
By virtue of Executive Order No. 130, all government
teachers and employees shall be granted a year-end
bonus equivalent to one- month basic salary and a
cash gift of P1,000. The EO is implemented
through NCC No. 49, effective November 13, 19887.
The year-end bonus corresponds to the 13th-
month pay given to private employees.
An annual antional clothing allowance of
P300 is given to all public school teachers
under Sec. 33, Batas Pambansa No. 866
(General Appropriation Act of 1985)
The 1981 national budget under Batas Pambansa
No. 80 initiated the practice of giving the
public school teacher P100 a year for chalk and
other school supplies. Thispractice was
institutionalized through DECS
Memorandum No. 79, dated Feb 13, 1981.
The 1981 national budget under Batas Pambansa
No. 80 initiated the practice of giving the
public school teacher P100 a year for chalk and
other school supplies. Thispractice was
institutionalized through DECS
Memorandum No. 79, dated Feb 13, 1981.