ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - Talks about a branch collective agreement for the health sector continued at the Croatian Health Ministry on Monday, with representatives of the Croatian Doctors' Union (HLS) failing to appear again.
ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - Talks about a branch collective agreement
for the health sector continued at the Croatian Health Ministry on
Monday, with representatives of the Croatian Doctors' Union (HLS)
failing to appear again. #L#
Union leaders demanded that the government first revoke its
decision ordering back to work doctors who were on strike from mid-
January to mid-February, demanding an increase in salaries.
Before the signing of the agreement, which the government and three
other health unions participating in collective bargaining have
agreed on, some technical details have to be defined, Health
Minister Andro Vlahusic said.
The minister said the agreement would refer to all health workers,
including doctors, regardless of the HLS's refusal to sign it. He
added he would try to meet with HLS leaders as early as this week.
Vlahusic would not give a straight answer as to when the government
would cancel its decision ordering doctors back to work, but said
that the decision had been adopted in order to ensure the normal use
of basic and additional health insurance for which citizens were
paying significant contributions.
(hina) rml