FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
8 liUG -4 P5 :I 4 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
1 
Second Regular Session 
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S E N A T E  
S.B. NO. 
Introduced by Senate President Manny Villar 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Teachers play a great role in imparting knowledge, imbuing values, and 
teaching skills to the country’s most valuable asset, the people. Hence, it i s  
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 29 1 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. 
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 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 
is earnestly 
requested. 


FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
1 
8 RUE -4 
P'i '1 
Second Regular Session 
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S.B. NO. ___ 5. 
Introduced by Senate President Manny Villar 
AN ACT 
TO PROVIDE A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, 
EXEMPTING 
THEM 
FROM 
COMPLIANCE WITH 
THE EIGHT-HOUR 
WORKDAY ANDFOROTHERPURPOSES 
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 2008." 
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 regular 
plus at 
least twenty-five percent of his 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. 


shall likewise be 
Section. 
entitled to the additional compensation provided in this 
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 percent of his regular remuneration after the teacher has completed 
at least six hours of work. 
SEC. 6. The Department of Education (DepEd), in coordination with 
shall provide the necessary rules and 
the Civil Service Commission (CSC), 
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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