Health Sector

Nurses: contract signed, increase of 172 euro per month and back pay in November

Naddeo (Aran president): it is a contract in continuity with the previous one and is a good starting point for the next collective bargaining agreement for the 2025-2027 period

by Ernesto Diffidenti

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Translated by AI
Versione italiana

During the meeting at the Agency for the Negotiation of Public Administrations (Aran), the 2022-2024 National Collective Bargaining Agreement was signed by Fials, Cisl, Nursind, and Nursing Up, but not by CGIL and UIL, which had already abstained on the June pre-negotiation. The contract covers 581,000 professionals, including nurses, midwives, and administrative personnel, and provides for an average gross monthly increase of EUR 172 for 13 months. Since some increases have already been made as of January 2024 and others are expected in 2025, arrears should arrive in the pay envelope in November.

"I express great satisfaction for the final form of the 2022-2024 health sector contract," stressed Aran president, Antonio Naddeo. It was a difficult and complicated negotiation, but in the end a positive result was achieved. It is a contract in continuity with the previous one and is a good starting point for the next collective bargaining agreement for the 2025-2027 three-year period.

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Here are the new features introduced

A broadening of the pool of possible employees who can participate in access to the highly qualified area has been envisaged: in addition to a master's degree accompanied by at least three years' tenure in office, the possibility of access has been introduced for employees with a three-year degree accompanied by at least seven years' tenure in office, or the possession of equivalent qualifications together with at least seven years' tenure in office.

Some aspects of the contractual institutions were also introduced and revised, including: the possibility, on an experimental basis and while guaranteeing the quality and level of services rendered to users, of being able to spread the 36-hour working week over four days, subject to voluntary compliance by workers; recognition of meal vouchers in agile work and priority access to this contractual institution for those with disabilities or for assistance to disabled family members; the possibility of being able to combine overtime in the presence of an assignment up to the value of EUR 5,000.

The new profile of nurse assistant has been introduced, and certain protections relating to leave, absences and leaves of absence have been extended, as well as staff training. 'Particular attention,' Aran further explains, 'has also been paid to the increase in the average age of staff, by providing specific age management policies and tools aimed at fostering and improving the working conditions of public employees, who currently have a high average age; the possibility of taking holidays, also on an hourly basis; possible temporary staff needs that can be addressed through the granting of limited periods of part time, as an exception to the annual ranking list.

Given the peculiarities of the health sector, specific protection was introduced for staff subject to aggression by third parties, providing for legal aid by the company and the possibility, if requested by the employee, of psychological support. Finally, the nursing and patient protection specificity allowances were updated, as well as the first aid allowance.

Nursind: signing opens new round of negotiations

Per Andrea Bottega, segretario nazionale del Nursind, la firma definitiva apposta oggi al Ccnl del comparto sanità 2022-2024,è importante soprattutto per la prospettiva che apre. “Ci permette subito, infatti - spiega - di sbloccare l’iter della prossima tornata 2025-2027, come avevamo auspicato fin dall’inizio”. L’intenzione adesso è quella di chiudere la negoziazione 2025-2027 entro il 2026. “Una novità assoluta - continua - che ci consentirà di aggiungere un nuovo mattone per ridurre in modo più deciso la perdita di potere d’acquisto che l’inflazione ha creato. Finalmente saranno adeguati gli stipendi degli infermieri entro un anno e quindi entro la vigenza del contratto. Il nuovo Ccnl infatti non richiederà grande lavoro, visto che il più è stato fatto con questa tornata appena chiusa. Si tratterà di aggiornare la parte economica alla luce di quanto già stanziato e di quanto stanzierà la manovra in discussione”.

As is well known, however, Nursind has defended the various innovations of the Ccnl just signed, starting with those relating to the free profession, "although we are waiting," says the secretary, "for an extension to carry out non-institutional activities also from the new year. Not only that, but we have expressed appreciation for the additional services with a single national rate of 50 euros per hour, the activity of collaboration, the definition of objectives and tools for age management, the experimental discipline of holidays usable by the hour and the possibility of giving them up to assist first-degree relatives (solidarity holidays) and, finally, legal aid for cases of aggression.

'Let us not forget,' Bottega concludes, 'in addition to the better regulation of holidays contained in this contract, all the innovations concerning the system of assignments. And finally, the equalisation of the speciality allowance of midwives with nurses.

Nursing Up: Ccnc renewal is only the beginning, now battles for decent wages

Per Antonio De Palma, presidente del Nursing Up, la firma del contratto è “una scelta coerente con quanto già annunciato a giugno, spinta dalla conquista della progressione di carriera, con l’accesso all’Area di elevata qualificazione per tutti i professionisti sanitari ex legge 43/2006, oltre agli altri interventi normativi a beneficio dei lavoratori”. In ogni caso per il sindacato “questo contratto non è affatto risolutivo ma solo un punto di partenza: i veri giochi si faranno con il prossimo Ccnl anche sulla valorizzazione dei nostri laureati magistrali con l’ingresso nell’area della dirigenza”. Non manca il riferimento alla legge i Bilancio: “Questa Manovra - aggiunge il leader sindacale - rappresenta l’ennesima delusione, tra promesse evaporate, come quella sulla libera professione degli infermieri, dietro front e stipendi fermi al palo, con aumenti irrisori e un previsto piano di assunzioni del tutto insufficiente nel numero, e non certo risolutivo rispetto alla carenza di

Uil Fpl: contract does not address wage crisis structurally

La segretaria generale di Uil Fpl Rita Longobardi, a margine dell’incontro Aran, spiega i motivi del disaccordo. “Pur riconoscendo che la legge di Bilancio ha previsto in termini generali risorse destinate al lavoro - sottolinea - a per la sanità pubblica non si registrano interventi concreti in grado di determinare un reale cambio di rotta e di affrontare in modo strutturale le criticità del comparto. La Uil Fpl ha riconfermato la propria posizione, non ritenendo ci siano i presupposti per la sottoscrizione del Ccnl sanità pubblica 2022/2024”. Sul piano economico “il contratto non recepisce le necessità rappresentate nel corso del negoziato con un aumento medio netto sul tabellare intorno ai 40 euro al mese, indennità ferme da troppi anni e nessun riconoscimento dell’indennità di esclusività e dell’adeguamento del valore economico del buono pasto”. “A ciò si aggiunge una visione che continua a basarsi su meccanismi accessori e temporanei - conclude la segretaria - incentrati su

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