MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
(Topics/References: DECS Manual, Magna Carta for Public School Teacher)
Personnel Management
General Categories of services in government based on
Executive Order 292.
Career Service – based on merit and fitness determined as
far as practicable by comepetitive examinations, as based on highly technical
qualifications. Any person appointed to positions in the career service has the
opportunities for the advancement of high career positions and enjoy security
of tenure.
Three major Levels of
career service position
a. First
Level – The nature of work is sub-professional or non-supervisory. It includes
electrical, crafts, trade and custodial positions, entrance to which requires less than four years of college
work.
b. Second
Level – Include professional, technical and scientific positions which involve
professional, technical and scientific work in non-supervisory or supervisory
capacity and requires at least 4 years of college work. Principal and teachers
fall in this level.
c. Third
Level - cover those in the Career Executive Service which include:
undersecretary, assistant secretary, bureau director, assistant regional
director, chief department service, schools division superintendent, assistant
school division superintendent and other officials of equivalent rank
Employment Process
Stage 1. Recruitment
Pursuant
to R.A 7041, Vacant positions in all levels in the career service are published
in the:
-
Bulletin of Vacancies in the Civil Service; and
-
In the newspaper of wide circulation
These are likewise posted in at
least three (3) conspicuous places in the office for the 10 working days
(CSC-MC No. 20, s. 2002)
Stage 2: Selection
Selection
of DepEd employees and teachers is based on the principle of merit, competence,
fitness and quality and it is open to all, regardless of gender, civil status,
disability, religion, ethnicity or political affiliation.
RANKING
Determining
Factors in Ranking
1.
Performance
2.
Education and Training
3.
Experience and Outstanding Accomplishment
4.
Psycho-Social Attributes and Personality Traits
5.
Potential
For teachers, ranking is school based.
Committees
School Committee – chaired by the school head or department
head. Receive all application and validates the documents submitted by the
applicants.
Division Sub-Committee – evaluates the applicants, observes
the teaching demonstration and conducts interview to the applicants
Division Selection Committee- administer written examination, consolidates individual
ratings and makes the final ranking of all applicants for inclusion to the RQA
(Registry of Qualified Applicants) for submission and approval of the
Superintendent.
Pooling – A registry of qualified applicants for every
elementary school and for every secondary
schools is done in every division office and provide a copy also for
Regional Director.
Stage 3: Appointment
NATURE OF APPOINTMENT
a.
Original Appointment – refers to the initial
entry into the career and non-career service.
b.
Promotion – refers to the advancement from one
position to another with an increase of duties and responsibilities and usually
corresponds to an increase in salary.
c.
Transfer – refers to movement from one position
to another, which is equivalent in rank, level or salary without break in
service.
Other Nature of Appointment
d.
Reemployment
e.
Reappointment
f.
Reinstatement
g.
Renewal
h.
Change of Statust.
i.
Demotion
j.
Reclassification
EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF TEACHERS
a.
Regular Permanent Status – issued to a teacher
who meets all the requirements in the position
b.
Provisional Status – issued to a teacher who
meets all the requirements of the position except eligibility.
c.
Substitute Status – issued to a teacher when the
regular incumbent of the position is temporarily unable to perform the duties
of the position.
TEACHERS LEAVE
From
the Magna Carta of Public School Teachers (R.A. 4670)
1.
Teachers are not entitled to the usual vacation
and sick leave credits but proportional vacation pay (PVP) during Summer and
Christmas Vacation
2.
Teachers who have at least seven (7) years of
continuous service may be entitled to study leave of absence with pay not
exceeding in one (1) school year.
3.
Maternity Leave
Every woman in the government service who has rendered an
aggregate of two or more years in
service, in addition to the vacation and sick leave granted to her is entitled
to a maternity leave of 60 days with full pay.
Paternity Leave (RA 8187)
A married male employee is entitled to paternity leave of
seven (7) working days for his first (4) deliveries of his legitimate spouse
with whom he is living.
