New Guidelines for Payment of Teaching Overload and Vacation Service Credits (VSC)
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| New Guidelines for Payment of Teaching Overload and Vacation Service Credits (VSC) |
Administration of Compensation and Benefits
A. Payment of Teaching Overload
1. Teaching overload shall be compensated through teaching overload pay.2. The School Head shall prepare a record of teachers who rendered services beyond six (6) hours aggregated on a weekly basis.
3. Payment of teaching overload shall be made on a quarterly basis, subject to the extent of allotment for the purpose. In the event of insufficiency of funds, teaching overload hours shall be converted to earned VSC as provided under existing DepEd policy.
B. Grant of Vacation Service Credits (VSC)
1. Teacher ancillary tasks defined in V.A.3.5, V.A.3.6, and teaching-related assignments performed by teachers beyond regular work hours shall be compensated through the grant of VSC.
2. Eight (8) hours of services rendered shall be equivalent to at least 1.25 VSC.
3. The grant of VSC shall be guided by the following procedures:
a. Teachers shall secure authority from the School Head to render work beyond regular work hours, specifying the following:
i. Name and position
ii. Date and time (hours to be rendered)
iii. Purpose/tasks to be accomplished
iv. Justification
b. The School Head shall approve the request after a thorough evaluation of the necessity and urgency of the declared purpose/tasks to be accomplished.
c. For the request for grant of VSC, teachers shall submit the following to the School Head:
i. Individual Accomplishment Report
ii. Approved authority
d. The School Head shall approve the individual accomplishment report for submission to the Office of the SDS.
e. Human Resource Management Officers (HRMOs)/In-Charge shall prepare the Special Order indicating the list of eligible teachers and the number of earned VSC based on the actual number of hours/days teachers have rendered, to be approved by the SDS.
f. Once approved, the Personnel Unit shall record the earned VSC in the Employee's Leave Card.
g. Teachers shall be regularly informed of their earned VSC.
4. Accumulated VSCs are used to offset absences of a teacher due to illness, or to offset proportional deduction in the vacation salary due to absences for personal reasons, or late appointment.
5. The procedures for the use of VSC to offset absences or deduction in vacation salary shall be in accordance with other existing DepEd policy.
a. Absences reflected in the daily time record (DTR) shall indicate Vacation Service Credit Applied (VSCA) for offsetting absences.
6. The accrued VSC may be converted to Sick Leave-Vacation Leave (SL-VL) credits for monetization, subject to availability of funds.
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