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May 21, 2010 | ASIA PACIFICFilipino dentists demand salary upgradeHONG KONG/LEIPZIG, Germany: The Filipino government has been called on to include public school dentists and assistants into the next update of the Salary Standardization Law III in July. The legislation, signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last year, aims to standardise basic salaries, allowances, benefits and incentives for approx. 1.5 million government employees. It also secures the annual increase of public salaries until 2013. There are currently more than 700 public school dentists and assistants working in the Philippines handling a population of 21 million, according to the Department of Education Dentists Association (DEDA). The association the demand by the fact that dental workers have to undergo regular Continuing Education programmes and provide themselves with necessary dental equipment. |
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