DAVAO CITY – The Department of Budget and Management on Monday assured teachers that they will be receiving their Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) this month.
Teachers during a dialogue with the DBM officials asked for the immediate release of the PEI on Monday morning.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers said DBM Director Edgardo Macaranas and Assistant Secretary Myrna Chua said the Department of Education can release the one-month salary for teachers.
Last May, President Benigno Aquino III signed Executive Order 181 granting at least P5,000 or a one-month pay equivalent of bonus for government employees set to be released starting June 1.
The teachers also called on DBM to act on their demand for salary increase.
“The last time that teachers and employees were given a raise in their pay was last 2009 when the third phase of the Salary Standardization Law was implemented. The raise was given in four tranches by the Arroyo administration,” said Act – National Capital Region President Benjamin Valbuena.
Valbuena said the term of President Aquino will end next year “and he has not signified intentions of increasing our salaries.”
“We know that the government agencies, including the [DBM], are supposed to submit their respective budgets to Congress during this period. We demand that DBM include the salary increase that we need in the general appropriations act,” said Valbuena.
