Bishops to Catholic schools: Don’t lay off teachers under new program

As college professors expressed fear over massive retrenchment starting 2016 as a consequence of a new curriculum to be adopted by government, bishops urged Catholic schools to be charitable to teachers and instead be creative so as to provide them jobs. Since the new curriculum will add 2 years to the current 4-year high school program, there will be no or very minimal college freshman enrollment until academic year 2021-2022. Because of this, teachers groups say around 30,000 professors and 15,000 non-teaching staff in colleges will be retrenched. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, however, said religion-based schools make the law of “charity” take precedence over the country’s labor laws.

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