Africa-Press – Cape verde. The collective of nurses hired in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, in an open letter to the Ministry of Health and Social Security, asks for the legal adjustment of accounts and clarifications of the guardianship on pending issues of various kinds, including social security, debts with hours overtime, vacations, among others.
In an open letter addressed to the Ministry of Health and Civil Society, the collective of nurses said they were “displeased and indignant” at the receipt of an alleged letter of expiry of contracts, dated August 17, without, however, complying to legal notice.
“The time has come to, more than asking for minimal appreciation of efforts, collectively raise and converge our voices and our forces in the face of so many dissatisfactions, manifest indifference and insults subjected until now”, he says, demanding “respect”, clarifications and the legal adjustments to which you are entitled.
Whatever the reasons that resulted in the cancellation/forfeiture of the contracts, he underlines, the group asks that its doubts be clarified, as well as its rights fulfilled and pending issues resolved.
Pendencies
The collective lists a set of alleged pending issues with the Ministry of Health, including wages in arrears, paid vacations, lack of rest and weekly days off, work overload, sick leave, services performed with unpaid payments, lack of health and life insurance, lack of drug subsistence, among others.
He also questions when new competitions and placements will be opened, stressing that this measure will increase the unemployment rate in the country.
precarious working conditions
As for working time during the pandemic, the group recalls that the class was subject to many “less pleasant and humane work situations”, subjected, in many islands and regions of the country, to poor working conditions.
“Work in conditions, in addition to being precarious, with a lack of humanization and inter-institutional empathy, sometimes with intimidation and verbal threats of non-abandonment/absence at work, inefficiency in operational, administrative and directive support, including on the part of the MSSS, as the highest body of health in Cape Verde, in decision-making or directing information about contracts”, he said.
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