June 21, 2022
The Filipino Nurses United calls on the government to the entry salary of both public and private nurses to P50,000, implement a safe nurse-to-patient ratio, and regularize contractual workers to prevent nurses from seeking employment overseas and leaving the profession.
FNU also urges the government to hire more healthcare workers and to regularize contractual nurses, including job order nurses, Nurse Deployment Program nurses, and contract of service nurses in the hopes to address the exodus of nurses, who are hailed as heroes in the country.
“These measures will surely decrease the number of nurses from leaving—either the hospital, the nursing profession or the country,” FNU says. — Gaea Katreena Cabico
August 15, 2021
The International Labor Organization should have more representatives on its governing body to better set global labor standards and ensure social and economic justice, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III says.
Bello is a member of the ILO's Government Group.
He says member countries should ratify the 1986 Amendment to the ILO constitution that will increase the number of members in the organization's Governing Body to 112 from 56.
July 1, 2019
Senate President Tito Sotto files a bill requiring employers in the private sector to give workers 14th-month pay.
Just in: Senate Pres @sotto_tito files bills requiring employers in the private sector to pay 14th month pay @News5AKSYON @onenewsph pic.twitter.com/HrMdST9AVv
— marie ann los banos (@maeannelosbanos) July 1, 2019
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