REPUBLIC ACT No.

4670 June 18, 1966

THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

III. HOURS OF WORK AND REMUNERATION

Section 13. Teaching Hours. Any teacher engaged in actual classroom instruction shall not be required to render more
than six hours of actual classroom teaching a day, which shall be so scheduled as to give him time for the preparation and
correction of exercises and other work incidental to his normal teaching duties:

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) seconded Malacañang’s reminder to government employees to follow regulations on
work hours.

Under Section 5, Rule XVII of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Book V of Executive Order No. 292, all government
officials and employees are required to render eight working hours a day for five days a week, or a total of 40 hours a
week excluding time for lunch. The normal working hours shall be from 8 AM to 12 NN, and 1 PM to 5 PM.
Moreover, Section 6 of the same Rule allows the adoption of flexible working hours or ‘flexi-time’. CSC Memorandum
Circular No. 14, s. 1989 prescribed that the flexi-time should not start earlier than 7 AM and not end later than 7 PM. In no
case shall the flexi-time arrangement be occasionally changed by the employee at his or her convenience.

DepEd, can you simplify the computation of the work hours, 8 hours x 5 days = 40 hours in
a week for a public-school teacher to work.
Formula: Actual Classroom Instruction / Contact hours x 5 days = SUM of Hours Work
So you can see how many hours is the appended duty to be added.