Nurses and administrative and support staff at Hadassah Medical Center resumed regular work on Wednesday morning, after Hadassah CEO Avigdor Kaplan and Histadrut Trade Unions Division chairman Avi Nissenkorn signed a temporary agreement early this morning. Hundreds of employees heard the news as they were camping out on the hospital grounds.
Under the agreement, Hadassah employees earning up to a gross monthly salary of NIS 15,000 will be paid in full during the hospital's stay of proceedings. The agreement raises the NIS 10,000 threshold that management had proposed. Hadassah and the Histadrut also agreed that by April 13, they will sign a special labor agreement as part of the hospital's recovery plan.
All summons for pre-dismissal hearings that were unilaterally sent out on Tuesday have been cancelled.
Hadassah's management, with the support of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance, is seeking to fire 250 administrative and support staff on top of the 250 employees already fired. Management also wants a differential pay cut and the cancellation of several salary benefits which it says are fictitious, such as general overtime and administrative on-call hours.
Hadassah's doctors are still working on Saturday schedules, and the hospital's management has filed a petition with the Jerusalem District Court on this matter.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on February 19, 2014
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