The government clarified today that the salary increases agreed with the Independent Doctors' Union (SIM) also include unionized professionals in the National Federation of Doctors (Fnam) and non-unionized professionals who have an Individual Employment Contract (CIT).
The Ministry of Health said in a statement that the new pay scale, starting in January, “will apply directly to all unionized doctors in SIM and to all doctors under contracts of employment in public positions,” and extends to non-unionized doctors. In the CIT system and for the unionized CIT doctors in Vietnam.
The government believes that all doctors, whether affiliated with unions or not, “should benefit” from a “significant increase” in salaries, based on the principle of “equal work, equal pay.”
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, issued on Thursday the diploma providing for an increase in the salaries of doctors in the National Health Service, which was agreed with SIM at the end of November in a recent negotiating meeting, but was then rejected by Fnam.
Increases range between 10.9% and 14.6%.
The body stated in the statement that, out of respect for “union independence and freedom of negotiation,” Health Minister Manuel Pizarro wrote to Fnam “to inquire whether the aforementioned union structure opposes the extension of the agreement reached with its members” Yes “.
The agreement was reached after more than a year of negotiations marked by strikes.
