Karolinska says up nurses who refuse a new contract

the Groups of nurses within the acute and intensivvårdsverksamheten has resigned, and threatening with the termination of protest against the new conditions in a new arbetstidsavtal that the Region of Stockholm signed with the Swedish association of health professionals.

The new agreement replaces many of the previous agreement and payment models for inconvenient working hours, and has been proven to lead to a reduction in income with several hundred dollars for nurses who work shifts, with many working shifts of evenings and weekends, as DN told you about in several articles.

has been unable to meet the nurses demands on wage increases of about 5,000 dollars a month as compensation, and, inter alia, in neonatal care and on intensivakuten in Solna, nurses submitted their resignations.

In an interview with DN earlier in the week, said the new master kai fa Björn Zoëga to the discussion of the terms of the new agreement are still ongoing, and that the Karolinska hoping for a solution, even to get back the nurses who have resigned.

– When it comes to arbetstidsavtalet we are still working to find a solution. We are looking at a model introduced at the stockholm south general hospital, said Björn Zoëga.

of the new agreement, after the protests, let the nurses keep their old payments with a higher fee of inconvenient working hours, as long as they remain in the same service.

Now it turns out that the employer as a countermeasure to speak up specialised nurses who have not wanted to write on the new arbetstidsavtalet, which also means a prolongation of weekly working hours. There are three intensivvårdssjuksköterskor at the Karolinska hospital now said, up, which My in was the first to report on. The formal reason for the redundancies is the lack of work.

for health professionals at Karolinska Huddinge and director of the Swedish association of health professionals department Stockholm, said that the nurses working in huddersfield, but are not members of the Swedish association of health professionals, which is why the tray has not been called to the negotiations in the cases in question.

She points out that the new arbetstidsavtalet can mean a longer working week, but to the employer, according to a clause in the contract, shall review the salary structure and be able to compensate for the loss of income and that the intent ought to be to be an attractive employer.

" We think that it is unfortunate that the employer says up people. It is the employer's responsibility when they own their business and budget to compensate their earnings for loss of income in the base salary.

Mira Nyberg says that the association has had many discussions with the members that are disappointed that the employer wanted to compensate for the income differential so that the nurses do not lose out financially.

" Yes, arbetstidsavtalet is designed so as to get away from people almost work themselves to death, and for that you should get more recovery time. It is the employer's handling of the agreement as defects. Obviously, there is no shortage of work at the Karolinska – for why we have so many beds closed? This is a negative spiral, the employer himself sat in, for that you don't value nurses as highly as other professionals. But it is only with a team around the patient as it can take and keep beds open. Ago, I regret that our members caught in the middle for the employer for a bad personnel policy.

35 nurses, or half of the nurses, wrote to the management and threatened with termination if they are not compensated in their earnings for the new agreement. They are waiting to hear from the employer next week.

Karolinskas HR director Patricia Enocsson choose to respond in writing on the DN's questions.

" of Course we strive to keep our staff and find agreements. We have a dialogue with those who are critical of the new contract of employment and we try to get our employees to see the benefits of the new agreement. If a co-worker after all can not accept the new agreement, then, the employee can't continue with their employment, writes Patricia Enocsson in an email.

" It's all about the arbetstidsmått that the employee followed in the past no longer exists in the new agreement. Redundancy is the term that we as employers can't offer the work under the previous conditions.

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