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This will also be discussed at the Portfolio Health Conference on November 10th.
The Independent Health Union welcomes the words of appreciation for the work of doctors and health workers and the measures to increase the salaries of doctors. However, the announced salary increase, if not accompanied by salary agreements for other healthcare workers, will create serious salary tensions because many will only receive much more moderation or no salary increase if they receive it and continue to do so for extremely low wages. their promising work, given the promised pay increases, they write in their Facebook post on Sunday.
Therefore, it is requested that a salary increase for professionals and other health workers funded with public funds be made in early 2021 in proportion to the salary increase for doctors. According to them, the shortage of professionals is now more tense than that of doctors.
“The sacrificed work of nurses and technicians justifies a salary increase commensurate with that of doctors, as it does for other workers in publicly funded care or other legal jobs that suffer an additional burden in medical and social care,” they added .
“This epidemic is a new challenge for everyone who works here, especially because of the diseases and the forced quarantine that affect them, and because of the overload at all levels of the care system. It is not possible to highlight the smaller range of workers health Disproportionately less recognition of a key worker because patients see him as a disadvantage, ”they write.
According to them, the wages of the workers started from such a low level that the wage increases implemented so far could only reach the starting wages that reached the minimum wage, thus the abandonment of the profession continues. The professional pay increases promised so far cannot achieve retention of skilled workers, and they feel particularly undervalued now, in light of the pay increases decided for doctors.
That is why the government is being asked to move forward the planned qualified salary increase for 2022 to 2021 and to increase the percentage of salary increases to a size similar to what doctors have achieved in a well-deserved way.
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