endIndex: Members of the Alliance of STEM Graduate Students and Workers - UP Diliman bare the statistics behind salary delays among their peers
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 11) Scientific research and development has been a lagging sector in the country, but this apparent neglect has bled through to the detriment of professional researchers.
Tin Bantay, a researcher at the University of the Philippines Diliman, last received a salary for the work she rendered in April. That payment was released in June, and she has been unpaid since then.
This was the experience of her fellow researchers working for a project. She was told upon signing up for the position that her wages will be initially delayed for three months, but that eventually became the norm.