Healthcare staff union activist: There is no such thing as overtime in nursing.
Javad Tavakoli, a healthcare staff union activist, says there is no such thing as overtime in nursing as it is commonly understood in offices because nursing overtime means working a second shift in the same hospital in place of a nurse who hasn’t been hired, but with a fixed salary.
At the beginning of this week, nurses in various provinces organized protest gatherings. Javad Tavakoli, a healthcare staff union activist, says about the demands of these union protests that today you cannot find any official or organization that claims to be unaware of the legal and rightful demands of the nurses. Nurses have already explored every possible path and have voiced all their concerns before.
In a situation where, in addition to a 20% salary, a 46% tariff is approved, totaling 66% for a specific group, and another group with significant responsibilities and workload pressure receives an hourly wage of 16,000 to 20,000 tomans and a tariff of 100,000 to 500,000 tomans with various conditions, one can grasp the depth of the discrimination disaster.
According to Tavakoli, there is no such thing as overtime in nursing as it is commonly understood in offices because nursing overtime means working a second shift in the same hospital in place of a nurse who hasn’t been hired, but with a fixed salary. One nurse does the work of two nurses but receives only one salary.