MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday supported the plea of nurses for the release of their back pay amounting to at least P43 million, and called on the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to resolve the matter.
Drilon urged the DBM to use the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) to address the salary differentials of public hospital nurses who were demoted due to the department’s circular released in 2020.
“Let’s use the MPBF to pay the salary differential of our nurses. They risk their lives each day attending to the growing number of COVID-19 cases. What the DBM did is an injustice to our frontlin…
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