Czech Republic
Doctors are to get pay rises worth between 5000 (€206) and 8000 crowns (€330) as part of a deal that will their salaries increase to around 1.5 times the national average salary by 2013. A major national campaign had seen around 3800 hospital doctors threaten to resign on 1 March if the government didn’t make any concessions on pay.
Read more at > Ceske Noviny news website (EN)
The mass resignation of hospital doctors, co-ordinated by the LOZ trade union, is still possible following inconclusive talks with the government. The union has a number of key demands including stopping the conversion of public hospitals into joint stock companies, the application of labour code rules on working time and working conditions and pay increases for health staff. Read more at > Slovak Spectator news website (EN)
The LOZ doctors’ union is planning to co-ordinate a campaign of mass resignations by doctors in order to secure higher pay. EPSU affiliate SOZZaSS says it will consult with its membership over whether or not to support the campaign. However, the union says that the level of funding for the health service is more of a priority issue. Read more at > news website (EN)
Unions representing doctors and health workers agreed on pay increases, reduced workloads and new working time arrangements at the end of October after lengthy strike action. From 1 March 2013 pay for nurses will increase by 17.5% and for doctors by 11%. The health sector minimum wage, covering many care workers, will increase by 23%. Read more at > Baltic Times news website (EN) And at > Estonian Public Broadcasting news website (EN)
