To the Editor: The so-called nursing shortage wouldn't exist if hospitals offered adequate pay and endurable working conditions commensurate with the responsibilities of registered nurses.

Who's to say what is adequate pay, what is overpayment?

Common ground at the school yard where teachers cannot get adequate pay, and students cannot get a scholarship, and can't make a loan.

But aware or not, it may have helped to deprive legally employable janitors of jobs and adequate pay.

Doctors are urged to take patients' well-being into consideration without worrying about material rewards, although providing adequate pay for medical workers is described as a priority.

The officers need adequate pay and equipment, which can come only from Western sources, and better training in investigation and civilian protection.

As the Commission on the Public Service formed in 1987 noted, if we cannot provide adequate pay, "recruitment risks becoming limited to the wealthy or the inexperienced."

He also said allegations writers do not get adequate pay for the amount of money he has given nearly RM 200,000 as royalty.

When districts offer adequate pay in contract negotiations, unions typically agree to reasonable changes in assignment practices.

We must therefore see to it that these people get adequate pay.