FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S.B. 2454 
Introduced by Senator Manny Villar 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Teachers playa great role in imparting knowledge, imbuing values, and teaching 
skills to the country's most valuable asset, the people. Hence, it is important that the 
teachers' needs and welfare must be given utmost attention. 
Republic Act No. 4670, or the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers provides 
that teaching hours of teachers shall not be more than six hours. Department of 
Education (DepEd) issued Memorandum 291 s. 2008 allowing teachers to allot six 
hours for actual classroom teaching a day, with the remaining two hours to be spent in 
teaching related activities. Thus, teachers are required to render a total of eight hours 
for the day. 
Teachers clamor for higher pay but shorter working hours. Their work schedule 
leaves them stressed out and exhausted. Reducing their number of working hours will 
allow them to have more time to innovate and enhance classroom teaching and result to 
a more productive workforce. 
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This proposed measure, therefore, seeks to reduce the working hours of all 
public school teachers, whether engaged in actual classroom teaching or not, to a six-
hour workday or a total of a thirty-hour workweek. This would be a great relief for the 
teachers. Any work performed in excess of six hours a day shall be paid an additional 
compensation of at least twenty-five percent of their regular remuneration. 
They shall, therefore, be exempted from the generally established rule on eight-
hour workday under the Civil Service Rules. Book V of the Administrative Code of 1987 
also states that: "Officers and employees of all departments and agencies except those 
covered by special laws shall render not less than eight hours of work a day for five 
days a week or a total of forty-hours a week, exclusive of time for lunch." 
To ensure improved working condition for public school teachers and to alleviate 
their standard of living, there is a need to enact a legislative measure that will grant 
them a six-hour workday plus additional compensation for work rendered beyond six 
hours. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this proposed measure is earnestly 
requested. 
MAN~LAR 


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
·S.B. 2454 
Introduced by Senator Manny Villar 
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TO PROVIDE A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, 
EXEMPTING THEM FROM COMPLIANCE WITH THE EIGHT-HOUR 
WORKDAY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the "Six-Hour Work Day For Public 
School Teachers Act of 2010". 
SEC. 2. It is hereby declared the policy of the State to promote the welfare of 
teachers by improving their working and living conditions. Towards this end, there is a 
need to provide for a six-hour workday for public school teachers and grant additional 
compensation for any work rendered beyond six hours to make them more productive 
and innovative and for a better quality education. 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the prOVisions of Civil Service laws, rules, regulations 
and other pertinent laws to the contrary, all public school teachers shall render six hours 
of work a day or a total of thirty hours work per week. 
SEC. 4. In the exigencies of the service, any teacher engaged in actual teaching 
may be required to render more than six hours of teaching upon payment of additional 
compensation at the same rate as his/her regular plus at least twenty-five (25) percent 
of his/her basic pay. Teachers who are not engaged in actual teaching but render more 
than six hours of work shall likewise be entitled to the additional compensation provided 
in this Section. 
SEC. 5. Notwithstanding provisions of existing law to the contrary, co-curricula, 
out-of-school activities and other activities of any teacher outside of their normal duties 
shall be paid an additional compensation of at least twenty-five (25) percent of his/her 
regular remuneration after the teacher has completed at least six hours of work. 
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SEC. 6. The Department of Education (DepEd), in coordination with the Civil 
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Service Commission (CSC), shall provide the necessary rules and regulations for the 
effective implementation of this Act. 
SEC. 7. If any part, section or provision of this Act shall be held invalid or 
unconstitutional, no other part, section or provisions thereof shall be affected thereby. 
SEC. 8. Sections 13 and 14 of Republic Act No. 4670 or "Magna Carta of Public 
School Teachers" is hereby repealed. All laws, rules and regulations or parts thereof, 
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its complete 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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