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Tuesday, 09.06.2026, 15:14
Estonian healthcare workers sign collective labour agreement
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Based on the collective labour agreement, personnel standards will be prepared for reducing the workload of doctors, nurses and caretakers.
Higher minimum wage rates will come in force in 2013: from January 1, interns will be paid for full workload, from March 1, the minimum hourly wage of caretakers increases by 23%, that of nurses and emergency aid technicians 17.5 and doctors 11%.
The collective labour agreement will be in force for two years.
The agreement was signed by the Doctors Union, healthcare Workers Vocational Union, Hospitals Union, Emergency Medicine Union and Family Doctors' Society, Nurses Union and Healthcare Workers Trade Unions Confederation.
Doctors Union president Andres Kork said that since a collective labour agreement cannot handle changes of healthcare system organisation and financing, doctors and nurses continue talks on these subjects with the Riigikogu and social ministry.
Estonian medical workers were on strike from October 1 to 25.
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