Broken dreams and promises power politics grief are all in this

One of the nurses is the topnotcher in the Philippine medical board exam. Each of the 27 is the hero or heroine of a drama that has made their siblings, parents and children weep and suffer with them.

There is power politics too. US Democratic Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts are involved Editor

The case has come to involve angry Philippine senators too, and a New York state prosecutor, the former head of the Presidential Management Staff in the Philippines, Filipino labor department officials and, who knows?, even the president of the Philippines herself.

Certainly, there are a lot of extras. On both sides of the globe, you have families, professional and community groups and legislators supporting these protagonists, rooting for the day when the nurses and their families can celebrate some victory after getting nothing but defeats so far.

No other labor migrants

All those interviewed said these refer to the emergence of other nurses who may find themselves in circumstances similar to what these beleaguered nurses are in.

The nurses were sponsored as immigrant workers in the United States, the target destination of many a Filipino nurse, and arrived there in several batches in 2004 and 2005. They later resigned en masse.

They now face very serious legal cases that threaten their practice and stay in the US, and their personal and professional reputations.

Among these nurses is Elmer Jacinto, a medical board topnotcher who opted to study to become a nurse, and left for the US as one. About six of the Sentosa nurses were actually doctors before they became nurses, according to Ibaro Relamida, SRA lawyer.

In the United States, Luyun also worked as director of international recruitment for the New York-based Sentosa Care, LLC, owned by Bent Philipson. Sentosa Care has controlling interest or owns about 27 other health care facilities in the US.

Sentosa made several commitments to them: competitive salary ranging from $21 to$35 per hour; medical coverage; relocation and housing allowances; free malpractice insurance; free airfare from Manila to New York; reimbursement of processing certification and licensure fees; generous shift differentials; flexible eight and 12-hour schedules; and comprehensive training.

Each signed individual employment contracts with the particular nursing home facility that sponsored them: Avalon Gardens, Woodmere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Brookhaven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Garden Care Center; New Surfside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Split Rock Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Bayview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Franklin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Golden Gate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; and Townhouse Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Upon their arrival in New York in different batches, most of the Sentoza 27++ were surprised to find themselves at nursing home facilities different from the ones that sponsored them. All of them discovered they were made agency employees of Prompt Nursing Employment Agency doing business as Sentosa Services.

The nurses questioned why they were not working directly for their petitioning employers. Some complained that there were not reimbursed for licensure expresses.

tion expenses, or even the plane fare from Manila to New York that Sentosa promised to reimburse as soon as they arrived in New York.

Some nurses also charged that they were not paid for actual work hours rendered, and were even underpaid their hourly rates. They also complained about the lack of proper and complete orientation of training and the disproportionate nurse-patient ration that they felt would compromise the patient

Felix Vinluan of the New York-based Vinluan Law Office lodged 28 discrimination charges against Bent Philipson and his group of companies before the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices under the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. Later, the nurses submitted their resignation letters to Sentosa, Philipson and the nursing facilities they were assigned at.

Philipson allegedly retaliated against the Sentosa 27++ by filing a breach of contract case against them, and even impleaded Atty. Vinluan as party defendant for alleged tortuous interference of contracts.

The New York Supreme Court justice hearing the breach of contract case denied on July 5, 2006 Sentosa

Office of Professional Discipline ((NYSED-OPD), alleging that the nurses abandoned their patients when they resigned. After a couple of administrative hearings, the NYSED-OPD closed the administrative case on September 13, 2006. Declaring that the nurses did not abandon their patients, the agency stated that

The nurses, through counsel Vinluan, also filed some time in April 2006 administrative cases against the Philippine-based SRA for violation of Philippine recruitment rules and regulations before the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). POEA Administrator Rosalinda Baldoz signed a preventive suspension against Sentosa Recruitment Agency on May 24, 2006 to prevent further

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