“Once again, professionals are overburdened and the provision of services depends on their willingness to work outside their normal day,” criticized ELA. LAB recalled that it is “a common practice that Osakidetza has been applying for years to conceal the structural shortage of professionals.”
ELA and LAB have criticised Osakidetza’s decision improving overtime pay to primary care, PACs and emergency physicians in the summer, because they were included at the sectoral table without prior negotiations with the unions.
Both centres spoke in this way separately in separate statements following the meeting of the Osakidetza Sectoral Table held this Monday, in which the Basque Health Service transmitted to them the instruction that includes the aforementioned measure for the summer months.
THE A has questioned “the new attitude and willingness to dialogue” of the Ministry of Health, because “the facts show that the new Osakidetza management has not abandoned the old methods.”
In this sense, he denounced that the sectoral table held today was “of a purely informative nature” because “Osakidetza has once again approved an instruction that came into force before the meeting was held” and the content of which ELA has drawn up consciously “through the media and the workers themselves”.
“Once again, the social part is being ignored and the legal obligation to negotiate at the Sectoral Table on all measures affecting the workforce is not being respected,” stressed the headquarters, which warned that if this attitude continues “this attitude will be reconsidered.” presence” at this forum.
Regarding the specific measures proposed by Osakidetza’s management, ELA considers that “the same old recipes are still being applied, which have proven largely ineffective”, regarding the improvement of the amount that will be paid to primary care. PAC and Emergency physicians for overtime (self-concentration).
“Once again, professionals are overburdened and service provision depends on their willingness to work outside their normal day,” he criticised.
In the same line, LABORATORY has rejected that this instruction was approved “without negotiation, by decree and without taking into account the unions that are part of the Osakidetza Sectoral Table.”
He considered that “in the middle of summer” the increase in overtime pay is “the only short-term measure that can be taken”, but he recalled that it is “a common practice that Osakidetza has been applying for years to address the structural shortage of professionals”.
LAB has described the inclusion of junior doctors as “a new patch” and has said that both measures “succeed in camouflaging the situation, but they do not represent real outreach measures that will solve this repeated shortage of professionals.”
“The choice to increase the price of overtime without proposing measures to strengthen the workforce is contrary to any idea aimed at promoting reconciliation. Overtime once again places the responsibility on workers who must choose between their right to breaks and keeping the health care system running.” LAB added.
For all these reasons, the union has expressed the opinion that Osakidetza is pursuing a “policy of survival”, which “is further evidence of the failure and lack of foresight of the various managers to change this situation”.
Source: EITB
I’m Wayne Wickman, a professional journalist and author for Today Times Live. My specialty is covering global news and current events, offering readers a unique perspective on the world’s most pressing issues. I’m passionate about storytelling and helping people stay informed on the goings-on of our planet.
