According to the chamber, there is a need to prevent doctors from dropping out of public health care en masse, so several points of the new law must be changed.

The Hungarian Medical Chamber proposes to the government a compromise on the new health law on eight points. As has been written, the section on secondment and transfer of physicians creates legal uncertainty and fear, and physicians may abandon medical care en masse if stricter rules on conflicts of interest are introduced. The chamber made the following proposals:

1 / In case of a health crisis, there may be exceptional rules, doctors can be relocated, but when there is no crisis, there is no need for them, it is enough to apply the general rules of the Labor Code.

2 / During an epidemic situation, you can apply for a job other than an employment contract for a maximum of 100 working days per calendar year.

3 / Members of protected worker groups may not be reassigned by unilateral decision. According to the camera, it is necessary to clarify who is considered protected. According to the Labor Code, pregnant women and those raising children under the age of 3, those raising a child under the age of 16 alone, those who care for their long-term relatives and those who have at least 50 percent from health problems are protected, but the Chamber can even broaden this circle.

4 / The Chamber considers it correct that the law prescribes the prohibition of disproportionate harm in displacement. But they are asked to establish in law what specific considerations and interests of employees bind the employer during the posting.

5 / A substantial posting fee must be paid, at least to those who are sent to work elsewhere for a long time.

6 / Oblige the health institutions to regulate the course and conditions of the assignment and strengthen the control of the works council.

7 / All workers should be able to perform private medical or non-medical work that is not incompatible with the operation of their public workplace. Authorization should not be denied for a medical activity that is not performed by the institution in question, and authorization should only be denied in extremely justified cases if the activity for which authorization is requested differs from the hospital’s field of specialization.

8 / Each employer should be obliged to draw up its own internal regulations on conflicts of interest.

The room sent 68 questions to Miklós Kásler. For example, they were asked to whom the law applies, if the rules for accounting for overtime are changing, how much weekly work time can be ordered, and what are the conditions for shipping or transfer. They also wonder if there really should be a choice between public and private healthcare and if second jobs for doctors should be banned. It is also unclear, in his view, how the government would control the gratitude waiver and when the gratitude money ban would materialize.

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