Fair pay urged for Filipino nurses
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on January 18th, 2007
Article:
Fair pay urged for Filipino nurses
Source:
Japan Times Online
Comment:
If the current draft discussed in this article gets passed that will be good news for Filipino nurses.
Notes on article:
1. Quote:
A draft government guideline for employers hiring nurses and caregivers from the Philippines says they should be paid the same as their Japanese colleagues, according to labor ministry officials.
Japan is to accept up to 400 nurses and 600 caregivers from the Philippines between fiscal 2007 and 2008 under a free-trade agreement signed in September.
The guideline drafted by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is aimed at preventing the Filipinos from having to work under unfair labor conditions, officials said.
Currently, foreign trainees in the machinery and agricultural industries tend to get lower pay than their Japanese counterparts.
Comment: Those numbers seem really small, but I guess if this works out then they can be ratcheted up as the need arises in the future. I hope this works out and that turns out to be the case.
2. Other conditions of employment are specified in the article.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I DID NOT OPPOSED WITH THE AGREEMENT THAT FILIPINO NURSES MUST HAVE TO LEARN SPEAK AND WRITE THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT IN CARING PATIENT AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE THEN YOU MAY END UP DOING THE MALPRACTICE. YOU MAY INTERPRET THE VERBAL CUES OF THE PATIENT DIFFERENTLY AND YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND DOCTORS ORDER IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO READ THEIR JAPANESE WRITING. UNLIKE IN THE PHILIPPINES THAT WE HAVE ONLY 26 ALPHABET IN JAPAN THEY HAVE SO MANY CHARACTERS TO BE STUDIED.
LEARNING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE WITH A DIFFERENT CULTURE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IS VERY DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE UNLESS YOU ARE EAGER TO ACHIEVE BUT YOU ARE NOT SUPERNURSE THAT FOR A SHORT PERIOD YOU CAN EASILY ACHIEVE THOSE THING.BUT IF WE ABLE PASS THE REQUIREMENTS THEN WHY SHOULD THEY WILL NOT GIVE THE BENEFITS THAT THEY CAN GIVE TO A HIGHLY QUALIFIED FILIPINO NURSES.
LET US NOT LOOK ON THE CULTURE WERE SHE BELONGS BUT WHAT CAN SHE GIVE TO THE PATIENT, A CARE THAT SHE CAN GIVE BETTER THAN THOSE JAPANESE NURSES CAN GIVE.