The Secretary of State for Health, María de Fátima Fonseca, welcomed the agreement with the medical unions on a negotiation protocol that will be negotiated and that includes the salary scale.
The agreement was reached this afternoon, after seven hours of meeting, after the meeting on July 13 was suspended, because the Independent Union of Doctors (SIM) and the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) presented a counterproposal to the protocol of negotiation. presented by the Ministry of Health so that the salary scale of these professionals could be included in the negotiations.
Medical unions want salary sheet in negotiation, meeting with Ministry suspended
Tonight the unions, FNAM and SIM, announced that an agreement on the protocol had been reached.
Unions and Government agree to include salary scale for doctors in negotiations, revealed FNAM
It is a process that “in fact marks the beginning of a substantive negotiation on issues such as the full-time regimen in the National Health Service (SNS), which appears in the Government program and that we are going to comply with, also the issue of the organization of work in the emergency department, which has become very clear that it is necessary to deal with it in a structured way, and other issues related to the salary scale and the appreciation of medical workers“, María de Fátima Fonseca told reporters.
The official pointed out that this negotiation process is added to others that are already underway, with other professional groups, because only in a structured way will reforms be possible that lead the SNS to “other levels of response to citizens”, said.
The Secretary of State said that measures will be taken from the negotiation process at different times, to resolve relevant issues for professionals and the SNSand stressed that structural measures can only be agreed upon through negotiations with the workers’ unions.
Source: Observadora
