Nurses, the union: “Part time, minimum contracts in the ASL”

TURIN. Part time: this unknown, or almost unknown, in the health care perimeter. The issue is raised by NurSind Piemonte, the union of nurses. “Some significant data at our disposal show how part-time use, especially with regard to nurses and oss, is in fact more than halved compared to what the rules and contracts could allow – says Francesco Coppolella, the Secretary -. Yet a reorganization of the services would be enough to allow many colleagues, most of them women, to access a part-time employment relationship that is compatible with family commitments. Instead, we are always faced with the impossibility of being able to access it even temporarily for more complicated periods in reconciling family, children and work ».
The threshold
The number of part-time relationships (part-time) can reach up to 25% of the staffing of each professional profile.
The situation
Again on the basis of NurSind data, only 9.57% of nurses and 3.54% of oss. At Mauriziano the nurses are at 10% and the oss at 8.82%. At the ASl TO 3 nurses 8.4% and obs at 5.8%. At the ASl TO 4 nurses at 10.13% and obs at 3.85%. At the ASl TO 5 nurses at 7.85% and obs at 3.08%. «As can be seen from the data, the percentages are far below those possible but there is no careful policy capable of being able to give an answer – concludes Coppolella with Giuseppe Summa, provincial secretary of Turin -. We will ask that this institute can be strengthened, because we believe it can bring a double result: the reconciliation of work, private life and the introduction of new workers into our Healthcare ”.