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05/08/2014
Health Minister Urged To Reverse Cuts To Nurses' Salaries
A review of consultants pay should be expanded to include cuts imposed on graduate nurses salaries, Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Health Billy Kelleher has said.
Deputy Kelleher has called on the Health Minister to extend the current talks taking place at the Labour Relations Commission between the Irish Medical Organisation and the government.
"Minister Leo Varadkar needs to urgently review this graduate nurse programme as part of a wider process which is already looking at possible increases in consultant pay scales." Deputy Kelleher said.
Adding: "The graduate programme, which was introduced last year, is nothing more than a blatant attack on newly qualified health professionals and lower paid workers. It serves to do nothing but take advantage of younger workers in order to make savings on agency costs.
"It is unfair to expect fully qualified nurses and midwives to work alongside colleagues, who are doing exactly the same work, for significantly less pay, yet that is what the Minister is standing over.
"Minister Varadkar should use the consultants’ negotiations to reverse the terms of this graduate programme. Unless urgent action is taken, the current scheme has the potential to lead to a shortage of nurses into the future."
(MH/IT)
Deputy Kelleher has called on the Health Minister to extend the current talks taking place at the Labour Relations Commission between the Irish Medical Organisation and the government.
"Minister Leo Varadkar needs to urgently review this graduate nurse programme as part of a wider process which is already looking at possible increases in consultant pay scales." Deputy Kelleher said.
Adding: "The graduate programme, which was introduced last year, is nothing more than a blatant attack on newly qualified health professionals and lower paid workers. It serves to do nothing but take advantage of younger workers in order to make savings on agency costs.
"It is unfair to expect fully qualified nurses and midwives to work alongside colleagues, who are doing exactly the same work, for significantly less pay, yet that is what the Minister is standing over.
"Minister Varadkar should use the consultants’ negotiations to reverse the terms of this graduate programme. Unless urgent action is taken, the current scheme has the potential to lead to a shortage of nurses into the future."
(MH/IT)
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