Slightly more than 2.000 nurses and technicians with the lowest wages received a ten-fold increase in their March salary, the Ministry of Health announced.
This increase is the result of the Agreement on incentive salary increases, which was signed at the end of February by Minister of Health Vojislav Šimun and representatives of trade union organizations.
According to the Ministry's press release, the health union expressed their satisfaction after the first effects of this salary increase.
"The March earnings included a larger number of colleagues, which was the agreement - to improve the agreement on the fly in accordance with the data coming from health institutions. Only in the Clinical Center of Montenegro, with the March earnings, the number of incentives was almost doubled compared to the February salary, and we have a tendency to further increase. We believe that the agreement is a good starting point and a good transitional solution in further negotiations with the Ministry of Health, which shows an interest in improving the status of the most vulnerable layers of medical workers'', they said from the Trade Union headed by Dr. Mihailo Babović and Nebojša Radonjić.
The agreement, the Ministry reminds, was signed on the basis of negotiations to improve the material status of nurses and technicians with coefficients of 6,05, as well as 6,58 and 6,95 determined by the Branch collective agreement for healthcare.
It stipulates that the basic salary of middle medical staff from this category will be increased by up to 10 percent as a variable part, i.e. stimulation, if they do not already have an increase for that month based on overtime or supplementary work and are not on sick leave.
"We also note that this increase is implemented through the already existing budget dedicated to the health system and that this measure is a transitional and temporary solution that will be implemented in agreement with the management of public health institutions until a systemic solution, i.e. the drafting of the Law on Salaries in the Public Sector and with it in accordance with the new GKU", the Ministry of Health concluded.
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