Recruitment: 130,000 new teachers, cops, prison guards, firefighters for 2019

MANILA – The government will recruit 130,000 teachers, policemen, prison guards and firefighters next year, Saturday a deputy of the administration, Rolando Andaya Jr., said in a statement, said President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the recruitment, ran through his "budget message" on the national budget project of P3.757 billion for 2019.

Andaya said 10,000 new teaching positions will be created, with P2 .21 billion to cover the salary of the initial year is included in the proposed budget of P529-billion of the Ministry of Education (DepEd).

Duterte also wants 105,529 vacancies in DepEd filled, for a cost of P27.6-billion, which is included in the department's 2019

That would bring the total authorized staffing of the department to nearly […] one million to 951,000.

"By 2022, it is permissible to bet that DepEd will be an agency of one million employees. Whenever there is a net increase of 40 enrolled in the public school system, we have to hire a teacher and build a classroom, "said Andaya. ; 2,000 officers from prison 1; and 3,000 firefighters 1. The first-year pay of rookie firefighters and prison guards will cost 1.38 billion pesos, while it will be twice as high for PNP staff.

Andaya said that hiring would also be conducted in other agencies, but he said "the president only mentioned the big tickets in his budget message."

It estimates that up to 150,000 vacancies will be filled if the hiring includes the staff of the Ministry of Health (DoH), the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Ministry of Transport and personnel of the armed forces.

Andaya said that by accounting for the "job creation potential of the budget, we must include the job created by the increased expenditure of government infrastructure."

"Building, building, building should create one million jobs, agricultural spending will also generate jobs in the tens of thousands, and the $ 910 billion in capital spending next year will require more jobs. manpower, "he said.

The national government is expected to end in 2019 with 269,098 vacancies out of the 1,827 million authorized posts.