Nurses Training Fee: IS IT LEGAL?
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Is the practice among hospitals to charge training fees by as much as P20,000 on nurses legal?
Eastern Samar Ben Evardone is urging the appropriate committee in the House of Representatives to look into this, raising alarm that hospitals, both government and private, may already be exploiting the nurses.
Evardone’s House Resolution No. 195
Government and private hospitals have exploited the situation by charging as much as P20,000 for a three-month training, hiring and deploying them to staff positions in graveyard shifts and without pay, forcing our helpless nurses to bite the bullet and thereby compounding their miseries





