To adjust their costs to the new nursing remuneration law, part of Santas Casas is considering closing units or reducing the number of team technicians, keeping nursing assistants, according to Edson Rogatti, director of Fehosp (Federation of Santas Casas e Hospitais Benefientes State of Sao Paulo).
“Each one will see what is most viable. The situation is very difficult. It is very complex because it is now the law”, he says.
Rogatti says that he also sees in the sector a willingness to follow the example of Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, which decided to take legal action, asking for a monthly block of public accounts from the Union, the government of Minas Gerais or the municipal administration to pay for salary expenses.
He says he considers it rash to start the layoffs at this point and has asked for patience. “We wait, the government promised, through the Chamber and the Senate, that the source of funds would come, but so far, nothing”, he says.
Enacted this month, the law sets a minimum wage of R$4,750 for nurses. Nursing technicians must receive 70% of this amount. Assistants and midwives earn 50%.
The sector has sought out authorities saying that there is no budget provisioned to absorb such costs.
Sanctioned by Bolsonaro without a source of funding, the measure has been evaluated as an electoral gesture to please a category that suffered the effects of the pandemic’s mismanagement and came to be the target of attacks by Bolsonarista militants in 2020 when defending social isolation and use. of masks.
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