The Ministry of Health (MoH) will restore the salaries of more than 4,000 pharmacists, senior medical officers, senior diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, senior technicians and technical assistants, it was announced this Thursday.
MS said in a statement that workers with employment contracts in National Health Service Public Enterprises (EPEs) will be redeployed and receive retroactive payments to 2019, representing a global investment of €34 million.
The trust explains that “the wage increases now approved will be paid from December of this year and, depending on the specific situation of each employee, in some cases with retroactive effect to January 2019.”
“This is a measure that values SNS professionals and ensures parity between workers with employment contracts in public positions and workers with employment contracts, equally valuing those who perform identical functions,” emphasizes Health Minister Ricardo Mestre, mentioned in the statement.
According to MS, this measure “is the result of work carried out between the government areas of the Presidency, Finance and Health, as well as negotiations carried out with the trade union structures representing these workers, especially as part of the development of a multi-annual agreement on the assessment of employees of public administration.”
MS also recalls that since the SNS EPEs were created, “links of a clear legal nature coexist, with older workers subject to public labor relations and those hired after the change subject to the employment contract regime.”
“These different conditions have created constraints in terms of human resource management, so a number of measures have been taken to harmonize the two employment regimes, namely through collective bargaining agreements (ACTs) between EPE SNS and trade unions. “, he emphasizes.
In the case of pharmacists, whose year was marked by all-Ukrainian and regional strikes, they demanded updating of tariff schedules, full accounting of work experience in the SNS for promotion and career growth, and adequacy of the number of pharmacists to the needs. civil service and recognition by MS of the title of specialist.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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