Republic of the Philippines HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECEIVED
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

RECISTRATION UNIT
eticiatic eee BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

House BILL No. 1485

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to standardize salaries of teachers in private schools which
at present is a confusing range dependent on the sole discretion of the
management of private schools to the detriment of their teachers.

Under the circumstances, it is also just that teachers in private schools
should at the very least enjoy the minimum wage set in the respective regions
where they teach. That way, the pay scales of private school teachers is not only
standardized among private school teachers all over the country but is also
harmonized with that of the rest of the labor force.

The passage of this bill will definitely redound to the best interest of
private school teachers who also constitute a sizable number of our educators,
upon whom we depend upon to educate our human resources.

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ATTY. SALVADOR B, BELARO, JR.

Representative
1-Ang Edukasyon Party List


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 1455

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
STANDARDIZING THE SALARIES OF PRIVATE SCHOOL
TEACHERS

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known as the “Private School
Teachers’ Salaries Standardization Act of 2016.”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. a) The State recognizes the indispensable role of
teachers, whether in the public or in the private schools, in educating our
citizenry. It is thus but fitting that the State ensure that the teaching profession
attract the best and the brightest by making teachers’ compensation and benefits
reasonably competitive.

b) Considering the variable salaries of private school teachers all over the
country, it would be protective of the welfare of private school teachers to
provide a minimum standard for the payment of their salaries.

SEC. 3. All teachers in private schools shall receive salaries which should not
fall below the mandated minimum wage in the region where they are teaching
provided that it shall be without prejudice to apprenticeship contracts which
they may enter into with private schools at the commencement of their


employment and provided further that no apprenticeship contract shall last
beyond one year counted from the first day they are admitted by their respective
private school employer.

SEC. 4, The Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher
Education (CHED), and the Technical Education Skills and Development
Authority (TESDA), in collaboration with the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)
shall jointly formulate and issue the implementing rules and regulations
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. The funds necessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter.

SEC. 6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.