Bu içerik, Kuzey İrlanda Sağlık Bakanı Mike Nesbitt’in sendikalarla endüstriyel eylemi önlemeyi amaçlayan bir ücret teklifini sunduğunu ve sendikaların bu teklifi değerlendirmekte olduğunu açıklıyor. Nesbitt’in diğer bölgelerdeki ücret anlaşmalarını eşleştiremeyeceğini belirttiği anlatılıyor. Ücret teklifinin geriye dönük olarak Ağustos ayına kadar uygulanacağı ve İngiltere ve Galler ile aynı seviyede olmayacağı belirtiliyor. Ayrıca, BMA’nın doktorlar için %6’lık bir artış önerdiği ve bu artışın Kuzey İrlanda’da tam olarak uygulanamadığına dair bilgiler de içerikte yer alıyor. Olayla ilgili analizler ve çözüm arayışları hakkında bilgiler de içerikte bulunmaktadır.
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt presented the pay offer to unions on Thursday
A pay offer aimed at avoiding industrial action by unions has been put on the table by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt.
BBC News NI understands a pay award backdated to this August is currently being considered by union representatives.
Last week, Nesbitt said the latest allocation of money by the executive would not allow him to match pay deals in other parts of the UK.
Speaking after meeting Nipsa, Unite, and Unison, the minister said there had been constructive discussions.
“I put the plan to them and they accepted it as a serious proposal, but it is one they need to go away and think about and consult upon,” he said.
“Equally, they have given challenges to me that I need to take to executive colleagues, beginning with the first and the deputy first minister, and I will do that at pace.
“What we are in now is a process. I think now everyone recognises that the resolution to this will require an all-executive approach, and that is to all public sector pay, not just health,”
The BMA said in July this year, the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Pay Review Body (DDRB) recommended an uplift of 6% for all doctors, and this had already been applied in the rest of the UK.
Its Northern Ireland council chair Dr Alan Stout said the minister had told the BMA he was not in a position to make the full pay award.
“On behalf of all doctors in Northern Ireland, I made it clear this was totally unacceptable,” Dr Stout said.
“I will now meet with the chairs of all the BMA branch of committees in Northern Ireland to seek their views on how to proceed.
“The scale of anger and outrage I have been hearing over the course of the last week is unprecedented. Doctors here are totally disillusioned with the Department of Health and its attitude towards doctors’ pay.”
Analysis: Conversations continue over pay
by Aileen Moynagh, BBC News NI health reporter
Neither the health minister nor most health unions would comment on the details of this morning’s pay meeting.
But BBC News NI understands the proposal from Mike Nesbitt would restore pay parity with England and Wales – but not full pay parity.
What this interim offer means is that pay for health workers would be backdated to August and not April like England and Wales, at this stage.
It’s understood Nesbitt has committed to working with the Northern Ireland Executive in a bid to find money to bridge the gap, with the aim of fully restoring pay parity if possible.
Conversations and negotiations continue.
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The first and deputy first minister said the executive has to work within the budget
Hope for a positive resolution – O’Neill
Earlier, First Minister Michelle O’Neill said that a winter of strike action by various unions in Northern Ireland over pay is “not inevitable”.
O’Neill said she hoped there could be a “positive resolution”.
“We also have been faced with the fact they’ve settled pay in England but not here, we’ve allocated 57% of the budget this week to health,” she added.
Stormont budget
O’Neill said she and the Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly met the health minister on Wednesday night, ahead of his discussions with the unions.
Little-Pengelly said the executive had to “work within the budget” it had.
“A certain amount of funding has to go towards funding those frontline services, that is a finite amount of money,” she said.
“The executive will be doing their best that is our promise.”
O’Neill said that it’s a “challenging situation” and the the executive does not want workers to go on strike.
“We will work to find solutions. I don’t think anything’s inevitable, we will work night and day to make sure we can get a positive resolution.”
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt submits pay offer to unions
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