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Public school teachers protest cut in benefits VOL. 2, No. 188
Cagayan de Oro City
Saturday-Sunday
December 22-23, 2012
P10.00
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL of Bulatlat.com
DECEMBER is a season of giving, but not for government employees. Public school teachers marched to Chino Roces Bridge, former Mendiola Bridge, on December 14 in protest of the 50-percent reduction of their Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI). “It’s as if it’s not Christmas,” said Digna Balderama, 45, a single mother to three children. The Department of Budget and Management recently announced public school teachers would receive P5,000 ($121) as PEI, instead of the usual rate of P10,000 ($243). Balderama, a grade one teacher at the San Francisco Elementary School in Quezon City, lamented: “Our salary is not even increasing and then the government will reduce our benefits.” Carrying their black lantern with slogans “PEI P10,000, not P5,000. Junk Aquino’s PBB [Performance-
based Bonus],” Baldemara and other teachers from different public schools in Quezon City, Manila and other parts of the country joined the nationallycoordinated black lantern protest march. The PEI was reduced because of the new Executive Order 80 or the Performance Based Bonus which was issued by President Benigno Aquino III last July. The deducted amount will be added to the funds that for the Performance-Based Bonus (PBB). Under EO 80, a PEI will be given to all government employees but not all government employees are entitled to the PBB. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said that the PBB system is a merit-based scheme and employees “who underperform or fail to meet of love. A shower bathing for the people displaced by typhoon Pablo at the evacuation centers in their targets won’t actually Shower Compostela Valley province. This activity is through the initiative of the youth volunteers of Comval in cooperation with teachers | page 10
the Tagum City government to maintain cleanliness, sanitation and good health of the evacuees. Photo by Ben D. Arche