1342, filed by Reps. Antonio Tinio and France Castro, said Secretary Leonor Briones’ DepEd Order No. The resolution said the DepEd order was contrary to the 2017 General Appropriations Act’s provision mandating that an employee’s monthly net take-home pay cannot be reduced by loan deductions to below the P4,000 threshold. ADVERTISEMENTIt also cited the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers, which provided that deductions cannot be made from salaries unless they’re specifically authorized by law. The order allegedly led to “more or less half” the public school teachers and DepEd personnel receiving a net take-home pay of P100 to P900, way below the P4,000 threshold, for the month of October. Although the agency had since issued DepEd Order No.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 27, 2017 09:56 UTC