There will be no new wage increases for healthcare workers in Sarajevo Canton until the expiration of the existing collective agreement, officials in the cantonal government confirmed this at a press conference today.
In recent months, the Canton Sarajevo government has been actively working on the request of health workers to change the collective agreement when it comes to the salary coefficient, said the Prime Minister of Canton Nihad Uk.
“In April last year, a collective agreement was signed with three representative trade unions in the health sector. With that agreement, the salaries of all health and non-health workers were increased between 26 and 37 percent. The valid collective agreement lasts until the end of April next year, and therefore the new increase that is requested should not be implemented at this moment,” said the prime minister.
He pointed out that doctors should have the highest salary, that society needs it, and it is given by more than 25 percent of the non-medical staff, so as he said, the question arises whether it is necessary to increase those salaries.
CS Minister of Health Haris Vranić said that currently seven and a half thousand workers are employed in the canton’s health sector, of which 25 percent are non-medical staff, while according to international standards, the economically acceptable and sustainable model is about 14 percent.
He also recalled what the government had done in the past period, and that they showed that a healthy workforce has good working conditions.
For this new collective agreement for the year 2022, ZZO CS allocated an additional 51 million marks for the salaries of employees in the healthy system.
