Covid bonus for Sicilian health workers, this is how 31 million will be distributed

PALERMO. Through the distribution of second leg of state funds that will be used to pay the Covid allocation, the so-called “bonuses”, to regional public health workers. Was hit yesterday late at night the agreement between the Ministry of Health and the unions on the criteria for the distribution of almost 31 million euros.

The sums will be paid on the employee’s second payroll. three bands of “intensity“Based on the degree of exposure to contagion during the activities to combat the pandemic, as established by an agreement signed last June.

“Today, it was guaranteed to us after our requests, Commissioner Ruggero Razza will sign the decree with which he will make the funds available immediately”, report the regional general secretaries of Fp Cgil, Cisl Fp and Uil Fpl, Gaetano Agliozzo, Paolo Montera ed Enzo Tango, and of Cgil, Cisl and Uil Medici, Domenico Mirabile, Massimo Farinella me Fortunato Parisi.

The breakdown of funds by province

The fault will occur after a mixed system based on two criteria, the population index and the incidence of Covid cases by province. “A timely and shared solution. In this way – the unionists explain – we will no longer run the risk of evil effects such as those that occurred with the distribution of the first 5 million euros, which left entire provinces dry because only the activation of intensive care beds was taken into account.

Each province of Sicily will receive a “piece of the cake”, result of the crossing of the two criteria. TO Palermo me Catania, In addition to being the most populated, they have also had a higher incidence of Covid-19 cases, the two highest sums will go: 8.82 and 7.40 million euros respectively. They follow Messina me Trapani, with 3.29 and 2.56 million euros. Following Ragusa (2.18), Syracuse (2.11), Agrigento (1.98), Caltanissetta (1.44) ed Enna (1.15). The sum assigned to each province will be divided equally among the companies in the area.

Now we begin with the negotiation at the company level. “We must be pragmatic – say the trade unionists – and reach the result as soon as possible following the ‘intensity’ table that we already have. The logic that should guide us is to reward, for those workers who have looked at the virus head on and have fought it, in the first wave of infections and still today, in the terrible second wave ”.

One thousand euro payment

Even the health workers of the three classified hospitals in Sicily (Buccheri la Ferla me Ismett from Palermo, Saint Raffaele Giglio de Cefalù) will receive an unatantum prize of one thousand euros. “Recognize the extra effort they made during the emergency to support health as a whole”, explain the unions.

Covid bonus also for Seus workers 118 with funds from the regional budget, around nine million euros, which will be allocated in the next agreement between the company and the region, starting on January 14.

THE COMMENT OF THE FIALS

“The deadline of December 20 and pressure from our union led to the December 17 agreement, which we can summarize as follows:

A. The distribution of resources It will not be carried out, between individual Companies, based on the incidence of Covid cases in the province, a system that is always opposed by Fials, which would have awarded only two Provinces with more than 50% of the available resources;

B. The agreed transfer (the fruit of a difficult and balanced agreement between the lawyer Daniele Sorelli, representative of the Councilor, and the unions), has identified a more balanced criterion that allocates the reward resources to individual companies, taking into account both the RESIDENT POPULATION, the of the COVIDA INCIDENCE “.

LA Fials recommends all its management to a Ensure that the reward resources are used to increase the resources allocated to “working conditions and bonuses” (overtime, infectious diseases, immediate availability, projects), considering that the extraordinary routine, immediate availability, compensation for infectious diseases, they will have to be paid with the budgetary resources of the companies, even in the case of an excess of funds already approved in early 2020 ″.

The union adds: «The lawyer Sorelli, on behalf of the commissioner, announced that he had already paid the workers of the“ classified hospitals ”a single fee of 1000 euros, for the effort made to support the RSS. The foregoing in compliance with the June 2020 agreement. SEUS / 118 workers (who will not be able to benefit from the state contribution) will receive the “regional bonus”, the amount of which should be slightly less than 9 million euros “.

UGL’S COMMENT

A change welcomed positively by the Sicilian Ugl present at the meeting with Carmelo Urzì me Raffaele Lanteri respectively secretaries of the Autonomous Federations of Health and Doctors, who from the beginning have fought for the disbursement of these additional sums (which exceed 30 million euros) at the national and island level.

«We bring home a result that makes us proudi, having been once again close to the facts to the entire sector that in recent months has worked at the forefront of this epidemiological emergency. We are also satisfied to have obtained a subdivision that contemplates 50% the criterion of the number of Coronavirus cases treated by each structure and 50% the numerical data of the population present in the provincial area. This allows a balance that can adequately guarantee even the least populated realities ”, the two trade unionists underline.

Raffaele Lanteri, Ruggero Razza and Carmelo Urzì

“Once again we want to thank the Musumeci government and the councilor himself for the great attention he has paid to the hundreds of work units operating in the Sicilian public health system, but also for listening to the statements that we, as Ugl, have made because we firmly believe that all staff deserve to be supported and encouraged more and more, especially in a phase as delicate as this one ”, conclude Urzì and Lanteri.

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