A group of health workers hailed the reversal of a circular by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which raised the salary of entry-level nurses but consequently demoted long-serving senior nurses. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) While the DBM Circular No. 2020-4 issued on July 17, 2020,...
The government may not have enough funds to cover the back wages of thousands of government nurses for now, Malacañang admitted Tuesday following a reversal of a budget circular that affected the health workers' pay status. President Spokesman Harry Roque (File photo/Malacañang) According to...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on Tuesday called on the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to use the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) to pay for the salary differentials of nurses in public hospitals in the country. Drilon noted these nurses were affected by the DBM...
Senator Joel Villanueva has appealed to the executive department to consider a promotion of the salary grade of public nurses. media The chairman of the Senate labor committee made the call as he hailed on Monday, June 7, Malacañang’s reversal of a Department of Budget and Management (DBM)...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III blasted private hospitals in the Philippines on Monday, June 7 for supposedly driving away home-grown nurses to countries abroad because of their "exploitative" practices. (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) In an online press...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has left the door open for the possible lifting of the annual limit for Filipino nurses that are sent to work abroad. (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) Bello, in an online press briefing on the occasion of Migrant Workers' Day...
(MB FILE PHOTO) The Filipino Nurses United (FNU) said that government nurses "will no longer be demoted" after it triumphed against the "unjust demotion provision" of a circular from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) that supposedly affects their employment status. “Filipino Nurses...
DUMAGUETE CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) will hire nurses to augment the current workforce in the Level 2 and Level 3 private hospitals in Negros Oriental that are now full of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. In an interview Wednesday, May 26, DOH-Negros Oriental...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III says the Philippines is "running out" of nurses and healthcare workers to deploy abroad. (Kevin Tristan Espiritu / The Medical City / File photo /MANILA BULLETIN) Bello mentioned this during a virtual press briefing Wednesday,...
The Philippines could fill up its annual deployment cap of 5,000 nurses abroad as early as June, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Bernard Olalia said Wednesday, May 19. (Kevin Tristan Espiritu / The Medical City / File photo /MANILA BULLETIN) Once the limit is met,...
Amid the dwindling capacity of hospitals and shortage of nurses in the country, the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) on Wednedsay, May 19, reiterated its appeal for reinforcement from nurses employed in government agencies who are doing "non-nursing jobs". (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN FIle...
Amid the demands for nurses here and abroad, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is looking into the possibility of partially lifting the moratorium on the opening of new programs for Nursing. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE) CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III, during a virtual...
