Doctors may be missing out on bonuses

Doctors will get for January higher basic salaries, but will miss out on the bonuses, which they had till now, daily Hospodárske noviny reports. This will mean, that they will remain roughly on the same level as before the coercive action, by which they necessitated a higher salaries. Hospitals claim that they can not afford the higher salaries together with bonuses, because they did not get necessary money from the Government and insurance companies. Trade unionists, however, claim that based on the contracts of doctors who noticed in the protest, hospitals cannot cancel their variable part of the salary. Therefore they called on the Government to convene the commission, which should investigate the situation.