Good News for New Grad Nurses

I can still remember my sister payed around 6,000.00 pesos to the hospital just to get in and be trained. Isn’t that amazing, instead of the hospital paying you for your labor you pay them for working for them. There’s a word for that, EXPLOITATION.

Here’s the good new, A lawmaker is seeking to stop the practice of some hospitals from demanding nursing graduates pay for training to let them get the work experience necessary to qualify for jobs abroad. Laguna Rep. Edgar San Luis has filed a bill penalizing public and private hospitals that make the new nurses pay them, saying it was tantamount to exploitation.

No matter what hospital administrators call the pernicious practice—training, skills building, volunteer work or whatever—what they are doing is plain and simple exploitation

The Rep. San Luis proposis a fine of 100,000.00 pesos for hospitals and one year imprisonment for the administrator.  Here’s more the nurse who has been made to pay will be refunded in full plus 6 percent interest until the balance is paid in full.  In this bill also, the nurses will be paid not less than the minimum wage.  Here’s a side note, my sister who is now a full time nurse at the hospital she was trained, (thank goodness she was hired) makes six thousand pesos a month however if you work in a call center you make 400 to 600 pesos a day more or less 18,000.00 pesos a month.  There is fundamentally wrong in how we pay our workers.  How  is it that we pay less those workers (nurses) who are in the business of saving life.  I am not trying to belittle the workers in the call center but I think the work of the nurse is more critical that receiving calls from customers.  Here in the US the nurses are among the highest paid workers because there job involves life.  Let us go back to the issue.

I would urge all nurses, new grads and old, to call your representatives and tell them you support this bill and it must be pass.  This is the step on the right direction.  In my opinion the penalty is too small but it is better than nothing and by not paying alone to be trained is a big step forward. [source]

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