Professor Leonor Briones, a former national treasurer, a long-time activist and the next Department of Education (DepED) Secretary warned schools and companies that they should stop practice of letting on-the-job students pay their training.
Briones said interns should be paid by firms that use their labor. She pointed out that earning income while honing the crafts of OJTs would ease the burdens of families facing two additional years of tuition and other costs under the K-12 program.
OJTs are required in the 11th and 12th grade to improve the graduates’ absorption into the workplace based upon the K-12 track for technical and vocational education.
The Duterte administration would monitor the situation before making the decision to continue, suspend or abolish the K-12 program.
The K-12 program was first implemented on June 2013. It was mandated to meet international standards. Militant organizations oppose K-12 on the grounds that it allegedly strengthens the country’s labor-export policies, leads to displacement of teachers, and cause more dropouts of students from poor families.
Source: ABS-CBN
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