Philippine Daily Inquirer —YOLANDA SOTELO
DAGUPAN CITY— A piece of good news to welcome the New Year: Germany is hiring initially 50,000 Filipino health workers, mostly nurses, just as the European nation begins to battle a new strain of the coronavirus disease.
Delmer Cruz, labor attaché to the Philippine Embassy in Germany, said in an interview during a visit in this city on Wednesday that Germany was in immediate need of about 50,000 health workers and would hire up to 150,000 nurses in 2025, and 300,000 more health workers until 2030.
The hiring of health workers from the Philippines will be done through a government-to-government arrangement or through private recruitment agencies tapped by German employers, Cruz said.
Minimum salary
The job openings are seen to benefit Filipino health workers who have been at the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus disease.
Cruz said assistant nurses would be paid around 2,000 euros a month (about P118,000) while full-fledged nurses would get higher salaries.
Language requirement
But those who would be hired would have to learn the German language to qualify for B2 competence level (advanced foreign language), he said.
Before the pandemic, employers handled the language training where nurses were given allowances while they attended in-person classes.
The training now would be conducted online, although the employers may still give the nurses allowances, Cruz said.
If they passed the B2 German language test, they would get the entry-level status as assistant nurses for six months to one year. They have to undergo evaluation before they are hired as full-fledged nurses.
Source: https://www.pressreader.com/
