QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 649)
RA 649 (approved June 15, 1951) is the “Government Nurses Salary Act.” It provides for revised salary allocations and automatic salary increases for nurses in the government service.
Nurses in the National Government service and in local and provincial government service, depending on the availability of funds.
P3,300.00–3,720.00.
P2,940.00–P3,300.00.
P2,580.00–P2,940.00.
P2,280.00–P2,580.00.
P2,040.00–P2,280.00.
P1,680.00–P2,040.00.
They must provide quarters and subsistence free of charge to all nurses employed in institutions or hospitals who work not exceeding forty-eight (48) hours a week.
Not exceeding forty-eight (48) hours a week.
An additional compensation of fifty pesos to sixty pesos per month.
Yes. A nurse with professional qualifications higher than the standards required may be given a higher rate of entrance salary, provided she has passed the Board Examination for Nurses and possesses the necessary civil service eligibility.
The Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General must certify to the President that there are available funds in the National Treasury in excess of the sums appropriated sufficient to cover the authorized increase.
It requires that the National Treasury has excess funds beyond amounts appropriated in the general appropriations law, sufficient to fund the increase.
Upon its approval.
It states that any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, the salary ranges specified in Section 2 shall apply.