A TOTAL of 15,079 Filipinos took the United States licensure examination for nurses for the first time from January to September 2008, indicating they wanted to seek employment in America, former senator Ernesto Herrera, secretary-general of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), disclosed Thursday.

By Amita Legaspi, GMANews.TV
Senator Richard Gordon on Friday said the country’s 43,000 public schools still lack nurses and nursing aides despite the huge volume of nursing students graduating annually. In a press statement, Gordon said only 3,254 nurses are attending to more than 17 million pupils in the public schools across the country.

(Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
A nurse staffing agency in Germantown is involved in dozens of lawsuits with nurses from the Philippines, saying that they skipped out early on three-year contracts after the agency worked for years to get them visas to work in the United States.

By Estrella Torres - www.businessmirror.com.ph
The global financial crunch is already affecting the Philippines’ stake of sending workers to Europe, with Spain suspending the renewal of its labor agreement with Manila. However, some Middle Eastern countries remain insulated as they continue to push through with construction activities, a Philippine labor official said.

By RAMONA ALVIR as told to CANDICE Y. CEREZO, OFW Journalism Consortium
I will never forget Edward Fabish; he made me rich. I never thought things would turn out this way. Eight years ago, I was working as a stenographer at the Manila Prosecutors’ Office in City Hall. When I left my job, my bosses –all [...]