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Slovakian Doctors Get Pay Rise with New Legislation
Slovak parliament has passed a bill in mid summer 2013 raising 8,000 hospital doctors’ pay in line with their demands two years ago when they followed the example of their Czech colleagues and handed in mass notices to force the state to make concessions.
After their notice deadlines expired, more than 1000 doctors did not return to work, which paralysed the operation of many hospitals and the state eventually accepted their demands.
According to the bill, in 2015 the monthly gross base salary of an attested doctor should be 2.3 times higher than the average pay in the country, which was EUR 805 last year. The doctors’salaries were raised twice last year already to almost twice the average salary in Slovakia.
According to the original plan, the doctors’ pay was to be raised this year again, but the government has adjourned the last stage of pay adjustments over its commitment to improve the state finance. The state, however, will not provide the money to raise doctors’ salaries while hospitals have long been pointing to that they are unable to secure hospitals’ operation without raising their debts. They will need some 94 million euros to raise the salaries in the next three years.
Last year already, Slovak parliament, reacting to a petition with 250,000 signatures, passed a bill that was to raise the salaries of health care nurses.
The Constitutional Court cancelled the bill last week, however, saying it is at variance with the constitution.
Source: CTK
Read more: Doctors Get Pay Rise with New Legislation | The Daily Slovakia http://www.thedaily.sk/doctors-get-pay-rise-with-new-legislation/#ixzz2fdwQZcAI
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