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APR
29
2021

Palace should launch program of ‘regularizing’ thousands of gov’t ‘casuals’ on Labor Day

The national government – the country’s biggest employer – should celebrate Labor Day with a mass regularization of casual workers who have been in its employ for years, if not decades, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “It can begin with contractual workers in
AUG
02
2020

‘Mr. President: Hear the frontline stories firsthand and without filter’

It is a doctor’s prescription with side effects. But if it will cure the patient and prevent medical personnel from falling ill, then there’s no choice but to follow it.  It will be the government’s job to manage the side effects – specifically the tremendous whiplash
JUL
30
2020

Regularize, promote frontliners now

How can government reward medical frontliners? Let us count some of the ways. Release of hazard pay, now na. Regularization. Promotion. As to promotion, kung di pa kaya ng mass testing sa tao, mass promotion muna sa mga nagta-trabaho. There are two kinds of job promotion. One is
JUL
26
2020

Hike pay of social workers—frontliners with most number of ‘patients’ in hospitals

There is a group of forgotten and neglected health frontliners to whom the nation owes so much—the social workers in public clinics and hospitals. The best belated thank you card that we can give them is to make their minimum pay equal to nurses, P32,035 a month, that of Salary
JUL
19
2020

‘Sana all’: Level up minimum pay of med-tech, dietitians, radiologic technologists to nurses

The “sana all” principle must be applied to the salaries of health workers in government, because a pay raise for one should cause a raise for all. The Salary Grade (SG) 15 entry level position of nurses should be recognized as the new benchmark for compensation for all licensed
MAY
13
2020

Sponsorship Speech on SB 1520: Medical Scholarship Act

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 13 May 2020 A medical diploma carries a hefty price tag in this country. Tuition is so high, and other fees so prohibitive, that the joke is that medical schools should put a recovery room beside the school cashier. Or deploy crash
NOV
20
2019

Senate’s ‘united move’ averts mass endo of nurses

Not one of the nurses presently employed under the DOH Nurse Deployment Program will lose their jobs next year on account of the projected budget cuts. RN pa rin sila, Retained Nurses. This is the assurance made on record and in the open by Senator Go, the sponsor of the DOH
OCT
10
2019

7,107 nurses to lose jobs due to budget cuts

7,107 public health nurses ang nangangambang mawalan ng trabaho sa susunod na taon. Kasing dami ng mga isla sa ating kapuluan.  If not reversed, it will turn us into an archipelago of dismissed nurses. It is a kind of hospital discharge that is the most unkind.  This is