1. Enjoin the Executive Department, to implement and enforce the following measures: a. through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the full implementation of Salary Grade 15 as mandated by RA 9173 for Filipino Nurses occupying entry-level positions in Government healthcare institutions, immediately. b. through the Department of Health (DOH)— c. through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) – d. through the Professional Regulations Commission – BON, to punish for grave violations of the provisions i. issue a cease and desist order in Government and Private Hospitals the hiring of nurse-volunteers and collecting training fees for false-training; issue orders to return or reimburse these trainings fees accordingly. ii.establish regulations in accreditation of trainings to ensure that only duly accredited training are allowed to operate; iii. issue regulations and rules that will reasonably ban the hiring nurse volunteers and trainings with the intention to circumvent Civil Service Laws and Labor Labors. i. to adopt measures with a view to ensuring respect for and implementation of labor laws and regulations concerning the employment relationship with regard to the various aspects of employment, for example, through labor inspection services and their collaboration with the social security administration and the tax authorities in private health institutions. ii.To a reasonable extent possible, the DOLE-Institute of Labor Studies, in coordination with the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) and its chapters, should collect information and statistical data and undertake research on changes in the patterns and structure of work at the national and regional levels. of the Nurses Code of Ethics in relation to Sections 23 and 35 of RA 9173, through administrative measures Chief Nurses and other nursing personnel, who planned, schemed, instituted, implemented, aided and abetted hospitals organizations to employ registered nurses under contracts of false-volunteerism, false- trainings, and such other deceptive devices and schemes. 2. Enjoin the Legislative Department, pursuant to the Philippines’ pacta sunt servanda obligation, as a signatory, to respect and comply with the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention concerning Employment and Conditions of Work and Life of Nursing Personnel (C-149), Recommendation concerning Employment and Conditions of Work and Life of Nursing Personnel (R157) and ILO Recommendation R198 - Employment Relationship Recommendation, to enact the following measures: a. Curb, prohibit, regulate precarious working conditions in the healthcare industry like False Volunteerism and False Trainings and such other devise, scheme, and methods to circumvent labor laws, decent work, security of tenure, social protection and diminish the benefits of currently received by nurses as may be provided by law; b. Set the salary grade for nurse in government and public hospitals at a level competitive with salaries of nurses in foreign countries and the global market; provided that, remuneration of nursing personnel should be fixed at levels which are commensurate with their socio-economic needs, qualifications, responsibilities, duties and experience, which take account of the constraints and hazards inherent in the profession, and which are likely to attract persons to the profession and retain them in it; provided futher, that levels of remuneration should bear comparison with those of other professions requiring similar or equivalent qualifications and carrying similar or equivalent responsibilities; provided further, that levels of remuneration for nursing personnel having similar or equivalent duties and working in similar or equivalent conditions should be comparable, whatever the establishments, areas or sectors in which they work; provided futher that, remuneration should be adjusted from time to time to take into account variations in the cost of living and rises in the national standard of living; provided finally that, the minimum salary imposed by law shall not bar the fixing of salaries in by collective agreement, subject to the limitation of existing Civil Service Laws. c. Ensure that hospitals meet the ideal and adequate nurse-patient ratio and shall impose criminal, civil and administrative liability upon persons and institutions responsible for instituting, implementing, aiding and abetting practices that aims to fill in the nurse-patient ratio through false-volunteerism and false-training; d. Review, amend, revise or modify the Republic Act No. 9418, otherwise known as the Volunteer Act of 2007; to delineate and define the instances when nurses volunteer may be employed. 3. Towards the end of achieving universal health for all, achieving the goals of primary health care and consistent with the national health policy, enjoin the Local Government Units (LGU) to create a ordinances and executive acts which shall: a. Prohibit and curb precarious working conditions in the healthcare industry like False Volunteerism and False b. Create more permanent job placements for nurses in barangay health centers, rural health units, district c. Ensure that hospitals meet the ideal and adequate nurse-patient ratio in the barangays, municipalities, Trainings in health facilities under the LGUs control and supervision; hospitals and provincial hospitals and such other health care organizations placed under the LGUs control and supervision; provided that, the basic salary of this nurses salary of these nurses shall be consistent with the salary grade prescribed by law; provided further, LGU’s shall afford these nurses with such additional benefits, remuneration and social protection considering the cost of living, exposure to hazards and risk, performance, and the nurse’s needs for professional growth. province, public schools, district hospitals and provincial hospitals and such other health care organizations placed under the LGUs control and supervision.
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