“If a certain labor market in a certain country imposes restrictions or their supply quota goes down, what our DOLE does is it looks for alternative markets for our job seekers,” Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte told a news briefing on Sunday, April 8. She was asked how the government will address the “oversupply” of Filipino nurses.
“This case is not any different and we will ask the Department of Labor to come up with information on other job markets that are available for our nurses abroad,” Valte said.
In the medium term, she said President Benigno S. Aquino III had earlier directed DOLE, Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (Ched), Technical Skills Education and Development Authority (Tesda), and the National Statistics Office (NSO) to improve the country’s job matching program.
The program would help guide students choose courses that would ensure their employment right after graduation, and not “trends” or courses that seem most viable now but “may not translate into a job four years after you graduate or five years after you graduate.”
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