Underpaid

By Gloria Jane Baylon

...Six years after the enactment of the Nursing Law, nurses (in government service) remain underpaid … many nurses are still receiving less than P10,000 monthly … way below the legal salary’ said Dr. Leah Primitiva Samaco-Paquiz, president of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA).

The Nursing Law’s Article VII, Section 32, clearly states that public nurses must be given the ’salary of not lower than Salary Grade (SG) 15,’ which is listed at P16,093 in the Compensation and Classification Act (R.A. 6758)...

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Source: thepinoy.net