THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF TEACHERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

The 1987 Philippine Constitution. States that the state shall enhance the right
of the Teachers to professional advancement(Paragraph 4).It shall assign the highest
budgetary priority to education, to 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.

Commonwealth Act 578 amended the revised penal code to include teachers,
professors and person charged with the supervision of public and duly recognized
private schools, colleges and universities with in the term persons in authority.

R.A 4678- otherwise known of the Magna Carta ( Magna Carta – Latin for 'Great
Charter' – is one of the most celebrated documents in western history. It was the first
written material to set limits on the ...)for Public School teachers, details the right
and privileges and benefits of teachers such as
1. Consent for transfer
2,safeguards in disciplinary procedures
3.no discrimination
4.married couple to be employed in the same locality
5.academic freedom
6. not more than six hours actual classroom teaching
7.additional compensation for activities outside normal duties
8.Salaries comparable to other occupation to ensure teachers a reasonable standard
of life for themselves and their families
9, salaries appropriated by local governments not to be less than those paid to
teachers of of the national government.
10. Cost of living allowance (COLA)
11.Special hardship allowance
12.medical examination free of charge once a year during the teachers professional
life
13. prohibition of unauthorized deduction from teachers salaries
14. study leave
15. indefinite leave
16.salary increase upon retirement
17. freedom to establish or join organization of their choice

Prepared By

PETER PAUL Q. CALDERON, Ph.D, M.A, BSIE, LPT