Gonzales, James Carl R.

BSED – 3SSM

Activity on Labor Laws & Social Legislation

NON TEACHERS
BASIS OF COMPARISON TEACHERS
(BPO Employee)
According to R.A. 4670 ,
teachers are devoted to teach in
actual classroom shall not be According to the Outsourcing
required to render more than six Guys, 2021, the average work
hours of actual classroom hours of a BPO employee range
Hours of work
teaching a day. However, public from 8 AM to 5 PM—an hour
school teachers are not longer than usual and mandated
exempted from the labor- work hours of the Philippines.
minimum requirement of eight-
hour workday.
According to Manual of
Regulations for Private Schools
(Par. 75), a teacher becomes a According to House Bill No.
regular employee of a school if 2592 Sec 7, All workers in this
Period of Regularization he/she is: industry are entitle to
1. Working full-time; regularization on their sixth
2. Must have rendered three month of service.
consecutive years of service;
3. Has a satisfactory service.
According to Jobstreet.com, the
According to Glassdoor, the
average salary of a teacher in
Wage or Salary estimated or average salary of
the Philippines is around
a BPO employee is P18,600.
P27,000 – P29,000 monthly.
Public school teachers are
entitled for an overtime pay if
they exceed the eight-hour
According to labor laws,
workday as Atty. Chel Diokno
employers are obligated to
mentioned as cited in Marcelino,
provide overtime pay to
2023. According to the
employees for any work carried
memorandum, public school
Overtime Pay out beyond eight hours in a day.
teachers have the option to
This entails an extra 25% of the
exceed six hours of teaching or
hourly rate on regular days and
eight hours of duty. In such
30% during rest days and
cases, they will receive
holidays. (Villanueva A., 2023)
compensation calculated at the
regular hourly rate, along with
an additional 25% premium.
 Private school, college, and
university teachers and faculty
members won't receive
payment for regular holidays
during the semestral break.
Holiday Pay
However, they will be
compensated for regular
holidays that fall within the
Christmas break when students
are not attending classes.
Teachers are entitled to the
required 13th month pay,
whether they have worked less
than a year to the school or are
13 month & Christmas Bonus paid if they have rendered
service for at least one month
within a year. However,
Christmas bonus is only subject
to the school or company itself.
Qualified and covered
employees with at least one (1)
Service Incentive Leave year of service are entitled to
five (5) service incentive leave
credits with full pay.
Individuals aged 57 and above
are eligible for a maximum
monthly pension equivalent to
80% of the Average Monthly
Salary received in the three
Retirement Pay
years leading up to retirement.
On the other hand, those aged
57 and below are entitled to a
maximum pension of 75% of the
monthly salary. (Llego, n.d)
From my experience, this is
dependent on the account you
are assigned to. If your work
hours don’t match the PH
holidays, you won’t get paid for
the holiday; thus, you will only
have standard pay. But if your
shift reaches the holiday here in
the Philippines, you will get paid
for the hours you’ve worked.
BPO employees are entitled to
the required 13th month pay,
whether they have worked less
than a year to the company or
are paid if they have rendered
service for at least one month
within a year. However,
Christmas bonus is only subject
to the school or company itself.
Qualified and covered
employees with at least one (1)
year of service are entitled to
five (5) service incentive leave
credits with full pay. This also
varies from different companies.
BPO companies in the
Philippine offers different
options for their employees
retirement benefits. Employees
have the option on how much
they want to deduct to their
salary to invest in their
retirement plan.