Increase Salary for Day Care Workers

Rep. Edgar Chatto has filed a bible bill in recognition of the selfless service of the Day Care workers whose essential yet non-permanent job merely gratified with honorarium is vulnerable to political changes.

His proposed Magna Carta for Social Workers secures their welfare thru institutionalized employment that grants reasonable compensation.

Better pay for a job well done is one motivation of the measure, said Chatto, assailing the existing Day Care Law or Republic Act 6972 which mandates a measly P500 monthly allowance.

The Chatto bill gives premium to the Day Care service because of its impact on the formative stage of the preschool children in the barangays.

More welfare incentives for Day Care teachers can encourage them in guiding the preschool children who, in the first six years of their lives, develop their cognitive, personal and social language skills.

Chatto's measure wants Day Care workers who are efficient to tend to the needs of the kids inside their preschool rooms five days a week.

Working parents can thus leave their children to the watch of Day Care teachers who are expected to perform well.

The First District solon has been supportive to the programs for the kids in their informal education, explaining why many social workers generously regard him as Day Care children's "honorary roommate."

In this year's provincial assembly of Day Care workers, guest Chatto challenged them to sustain the virtues that have endeared them to the children.

He said that to be effective, a Day Care worker should be trusted, patient, loving, caring and understanding.

According to the congressman, it is most vital to ensure that proper guidance taught should be learned.

In proposing the Magna Carta for Social Workers, the lawmaker acknowledged the need of the Day Care workers themselves to be well-motivated to serve.

The bill admits that the current Day Care service pay is "zero" against the cost of the enduring crisis typified by the spiraling prices of commodities that devalue the earning of the average citizen.