Contracts, how much more will healthcare employees earn?
The renewal of the collective agreement for the health sector is near. Here's how much health care employees will receive in their paychecks
Healthcare employees, who have been in crisis for some time due to exhausting shifts due to a shortage of staff and also due to the not always adequate pay, will soon receive an increase in their paycheck.
"The signing for the renewal of the collective agreement for the health sector is near", writes Corriere della Sera , quoting the words of the president of the Agency for the negotiating representation of public administrations, Antonio Naddeo, who stated that "we can get there within the end of the month ".
THE RENEWAL OF THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
On Monday, in fact, a note from the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces reads, the Regions-Health sector Committee met to define the Supplementary Guideline Act necessary for the closure of the negotiations relating to the renewal of the contract – three-year period 2019 -2021 – for the staff of the Healthcare sector.
The approval of the Act, continues the press release, "was necessary to take into account the changes introduced by the Budget Law 2022 which provided for the allocation of additional resources for the definition of the professional system and the integration of ancillary salaries" .
HOW MANY FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED
"The resources identified – explained Davide Caparini, Lombardy Budget Councilor and President of the Regions-Healthcare Sector Committee – amount to a total of 241.6 million, of which 63 million for the compensation of the personnel assigned to the emergency services, little more than 51 million for ancillary treatment and just over 127.5 million for the new professional system. Now the way is cleared so that we can quickly reach the conclusion of the negotiations with the trade unions and the signing of the contract renewal already before the summer break ”.
WHAT INCREASES ARE WE TALKING OF
"Starting from the lowest profiles – reports the Corriere -, the basic amount for salary starts from 50.50 euros gross per month and reaches up to 98.10 euros for professionals, a category that also includes nurses" .
There is also “a specific nursing allowance which for senior roles will reach up to 72 euros. In this way, the monthly increase in salary is 170.10 euros gross ".
THE NEW ASSIGNMENTS AND THEIR REMUNERATION
In the draft of the contract, says the Corriere , the new position assignments "must represent a highly qualified reference point that will have the purpose of consolidating, developing and disseminating advanced skills in the treatment, rehabilitation, diagnostic and prevention, decision-making and evaluation ".
These new figures must have "high levels of professional, administrative and managerial competence and responsibility and knowledge and skills". They "would be awarded an allowance of between 10 and 20 thousand euros per year (between 830 and 1,700 euros per month)".
According to the draft cited by the newspaper, the new functions are divided on the basis of three different levels of complexity of the job performed: "for the 'basic' profession the salary is 930 euros per year, for the 'average' it will be between 4,500 and 9,500 euros per year, while for the 'high' one it will go from 9,501 to 13,500 euros gross per year ".
THE HORIZONTAL "SHOTS" …
According to what is reported in the article, horizontal salary "increments" are also envisaged, "or further increases subject in part to an evaluation of the exercise of the profession and in part to length of service".
In this case, "for nurses, who fall within the health professionals, a maximum of seven shots is envisaged, each of which has an annual value of € 1,000, for a total value of € 7,000 during their working life".
… AND ACCESSORY ITEMS
The Courier then anticipates that the contract will also have to establish various ancillary items. For example, “the readiness allowance will be set at € 1.80 per hour; the allowance for the night shift will have a value of 2.07 euros per day; that for work on holidays is set at 2 euros per hour; the indemnity for radiological risk for those who work in contact with machinery is 103.29 euros per month ".
THE COMMENT OF FEDRIGA
“It is a due recognition – underlined the president of the Conference of Regions Massimiliano Fedriga – for a category that has done and is doing a lot for the national health service. Today's is really an expected and very important step ".
A "JUST AND DUTY" INCREASE
Satisfaction also on the part of Raffaele Donini, councilor for Health Policies of Emilia-Romagna and coordinator of the Health Commission of the Conference of Regions, who said: "This means that we will finally be able to recognize a just and proper economic increase to the employees of the sector, rewarding the professionalism of those who work in our health service, in particular nurses, social and health workers and all the staff who have been at the forefront of the Covid emergency. It is an important step in a time of difficulty, which we hope will be followed by other signals from the Government ”.
Donini in fact recalled that on the table "other open issues remain, first of all the coverage of Covid costs, which the Regions are not able to cover by relying only on their own ordinary budgets".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/contratti-quanto-guadagneranno-in-piu-i-dipendenti-della-sanita/ on Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:47:22 +0000.