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Saeima passes bill to phase out unpaid overtime for medics
During the transition period, the extended regular working
hours for medical personnel and non-medical members of ambulance brigades will
be reduced to 55 hours a week from July 1 to December 31, to 50 hours a week in
2018 and 45 hours a week in 2019, LETA was told at the Saeima press office.
During the transition period pay for the extra working hours
will be calculated based on a special rate, which will be 1.1 in 2018, 1.2 in
2018 and 1.35 in 2019.
The financing required to phase out unpaid overtime will be
taken from the contingency funds in the Latvian national budget.
Until now, medical personnel could be required to do
overtime of up to 60 hours a week or 240 hours a month for their regular
monthly salary.
As reported, the council of the Latvian Health and Social
Care Workers' Trade Union (LVSADA) on May 16 decided to call on healthcare
workers to start a warning protest campaign in a way of refusing to work the
so-called extended regular working hours or overtime for which they are not
paid extra during July.