Senator wants 6-hour work for public school teachers

• Saturday, May 28, 2011

MANILA -- A lawmaker sought lesser hours to be devoted by public school teachers in classroom and administrative tasks each day.

Senator Manny Villar filed Senate Bill 2454, providing a six-hour workday for public school teachers and exempting them from compliance with the regular eight-hour duty.

Besides higher pay, the senator said teachers have been clamoring for shorter working hours, since their current work schedule allegedly leaves them stressed out and exhausted.

Reducing the number of working hours, Villar said, will allow teachers to have more time to innovate and enhance classroom teaching. (Virgil Lopez/Sunnex)