Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

August 27, 2019 Dear Catherine Odtojan, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Aug 23, 2019 02:30:25 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for The retention rate of nurses in hospitals in Cavite. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. Attached is the Current Labor Statistics - October 2018 published by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The report contains number of employed persons by major industry and occupation groups. For more information you may visit www.psa.gov.ph. Please note that we are only able to provide some of the information you have requested for as the Department has no information on the city-level disaggregation. For the number of professional nurses, you may send a formal request to Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III at electronic mail address [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, John Christopher P. Lapiz FOI Receiving Officer