The hypothesis of renewal of the national employment contract of about 600 thousand employees in the public health sector (health sector) was signed overnight: from nurses to radiologists to administrative staff, as well as midwives and researchers, among others. The minimum average gross monthly increase is 90 euros, but specific category allowances are also provided.
The contract hypothesis concerns the period 2019/2021 and involves, to be exact, 545 thousand male and female workers. It was signed late in the evening by Aran and the trade unions Fp Cgil, Cisl Fp, Uil Fpl, Fials, Nursind and Nursing Up, expressing “great satisfaction for an important and long-awaited result”.
The resources for the renewal of the contract amount to 241.6 million, which will finance the indemnity of the staff assigned to the emergency services, ancillary treatment and the new professional system. Now the contract will be forwarded by Aran to the sector committee for opinion, to the government for any observations and to the Court of Auditors for certification of costs.
Various news, in addition to economic increases. The contract also provides for “high position assignments” with indemnity bonuses ranging from 10 to 20 thousand euros. And these positions will be assigned through public competition.
With this renewal, «in the face of the resources allocated by the government – say the unions – we recognize wages, rights and protections to workers who in these difficult years have faced the pandemic emergency guaranteeing the health of the health service and the health of citizens. The contract represents a starting point for an effective relaunch of the health service, which will now have to pass through greater resources and stable recruitment ”.
«We are satisfied with the definition of an important contract, after a difficult negotiation, which the workers have been waiting for for some time to be released. A new season is opening for the recognition of work in the public health sector of our country. The contract is a regained right, now we expect a large investment in employment and in the National Health Service », also commented the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini.
Satisfied the president of the Conference of the Regions, Massimiliano Fedriga, according to whom the renewal of the contract is “an important step forward for the health service and represents a recognition due to professional categories, such as nurses and social health workers, who represent one of the pillars on which the organization and quality of the work of our health care is based ». «We worked to close the contract as soon as possible and in the best possible way. We obviously believe it is a point of decline between the parties “, underlined the national secretary of the Nursind nurses’ union, Andrea Bottega, specifying that” the average gross monthly increases of nurses is between 146 and 170 euros per month “.
The resources for the renewal of the contract amount to 241.6 million, which will finance the indemnity of the staff assigned to the emergency services, ancillary treatment and the new professional system. This will result in an economic increase for the employees. Now the contract will be forwarded by Aran to the Sector Committee for opinion, to the Government for any observations and to the Court of Auditors for the certification of costs. Various news, in addition to economic increases. The contract will also include “high position assignments” with indemnity bonuses ranging from 10 to 20 thousand euros. These positions will be assigned through a public competition.