Gov’t passes 25-pct rise in public healthcare staff pay
Gov’t passes 25-pct rise in public healthcare staff pay
At a meeting on Wednesday (August 26), the Government passed an emergency ordinance increasing by 25 percent the gross monthly pay or gross monthly remuneration, as the case may be, of the staff working under the public healthcare system, the Government reports.
The measure is said to have been made in order to boost motivation of the staff under the public healthcare system, and implicitly to put a halt to the migration of healthcare staff abroad.
“Under the same piece of legislation the same percentage increase will apply to the bonuses related to work conditions, shifts, night work, hourly fees for on-duty service as well as all other elements of the pay system that, according to the law, are part of the gross pay or gross monthly remuneration for work conducted under similar conditions,” the Government says.
The pay rises apply to the staff in the public healthcare facilities with and without beds, diagnosis and treatment centres, medical centres, healthcare centres, multifunctional healthcare centres, specialized emergency and public medical transportation units, including the facilities operating under the authority of ministries and organisations that have their own healthcare networks, the staff at the doctor’s offices in penitentiaries, school physicians, community nurses as well as the healthcare and social care public units operating under the authority of the Health Ministry.
Qualifying for the same pay rise are also the staff of the National Institute for Medical Expertise and Recovery of Work Capacity, along with the medical expert services under the authority of the local pension houses.
“The same percentage rise, namely from 3,100 lei to 3,875 lei, shall be applied as cap on gross monthly pay/remuneration qualifying for residential scholarship. The change will preserve the right of resident doctors to draw a 670 lei monthly resident scholarship even after the pay increases decided upon today come into force,” the Press Office of the Government says.
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Source: Agerpres.ro
