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Nurses rally to seek answers over delay to civil job status

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About 1,000 professional nurses rallied outside Government House yesterday demanding an explanation for delays in the government's promise to give them civil servant employment status that would offer them better work benefits.

About 1,000 professional nurses from state hospitals rally outside Government House yesterday demanding to know why a promise to give them civil servant employment status has not yet been delivered. APICHART JINAKUL

The nurses are currently employed as either temporary or permanent non-civil servant staff at state hospitals throughout the country, due to a lack of civil servant position quotas.

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  • Discussion 2 : 17 Oct 2012 at 05.272

    Discussion #1: But this is Thailand, not the US. And the US healthcare system is the most expensive in the world. Hardly a model for comparison.

  • Discussion 1 : 17 Oct 2012 at 02.351

    US nurses work 12hours shift instead of 8 hours,If they work longer than 12 hour a day they get overtime pay.If they work 16 hours they get 4hr. overtime pay.

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