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Collective agreement for Lithuania's healthcare system employees

BC, Vilnius, 09.09.2013.Print version
Last Tuesday members of tripartite council of the National Health System of Lithuania (LNSS) have agreed to prepare a sectoral collective agreement in the nearest future. It will regulate core obligations of the LNSS employers and employees, labour relations, holidays, payment, working conditions and other matters, informs LETA/ELTA.

Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis said that he is seeking for change. "I want an honest Lithuania. I want the collective agreement to encompass the whole health sector and that it established equal salary for the same job. This constitutional provision must become the principle of our life," said Andriukaitis.

 

A working group was formed to draft the LNSS collective agreement. Trade union of medics, employers and representatives of executive government specializing in health will delegate three representatives each to the working group. Three experts will also be invited. The working group was also entrusted to renew, modernize and coordinate collective agreements signed with employers.

 

At the meeting, members of the tripartite council stated that even though there are numerous trade unions representing medics, just a third of all healthcare institutions have signed collective employment contracts. Not all institutions have operating labour councils, while the heads of certain institutions are strictly against their employee participation in trade union activity.

 

The LNSS tripartite council was established in May. It aims to coordinate interests of personal and public healthcare and pharmaceutical specialists, their employers and the state.






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