02/09/2013

Vote Due On IMO Industrial Action

The result of a ballot of some 2,000 junior doctors in a dispute over working hours is due today.

The non-consultant hospital doctors called for the implementation of an EU directive stating that they should not work more that 48 hours a week.

The doctors are voting on the scale of possibly industrial action after discussions between the Irish Medical Organisation and the HSE failed to settle the matter.

The IMO claim that junior doctors regularly work up to 100 hours a week.

Whatever action is decided by the vote, the IMO has guaranteed that emergency services will not be affected.

(MH/JP)

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