having a law to fine overtime in the first place was beyond fucking stupid
Why? I mean, fining the people that worked the overtime is pretty dumb, but fining a business for overtime makes sense to me: it would encourage businesses to right-size their staffs rather than push for overtime from overworked workers.
Edit: if you need overtime to make enough money, you need to join a union and agitate for a strike. More time at work isn’t the answer the world needs.
So the fines are leveled at professionals who receive less legal protections than other industries. Doctors are also hopefully making enough money not to need overtime
But also, there is a question about the state response to a disaster. This seems to be punishing those to responded to a disaster in a way reflective of the disaster. If the government didn’t want them to work overtime, resources should have been provided so they didn’t need to work overtime.
This particular situation is getting ironed out.
I’m just saying that fining businesses for overtime doesn’t seem like the most hairbrained idea to me, it’s not “beyond fucking stupid.”
I disagree but only for jobs like doctors and pilots where overwork is a safety issue. I don’t care if an exhausted stock trader loses money but doctors do need mandatory breaks, limits on shift length, time between shifts, etc.
I sort of understand a union investigating a hospital over forced overtime, but why would you punish the victims by fining the very people forced to work overtime?
Shit like this is what destroys public confidence in unions.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Italian health minister has promised to change draconian employment regulations affecting medical employees after three doctors received fines totalling €37,000 (£32,000) for working too much during the coronavirus pandemic.
Orazio Schillaci’s comments came after Vito Procacci, the chief of the emergency unit at the general hospital in Bari, Puglia, said he had been fined €27,000 by the local labour inspectorate for breaching overtime rules and not taking obligatory breaks.
“Yesterday we were heroes; today we are transgressors,” Procacci wrote on Facebook, adding that the fines were “an insult to Italian healthcare workers but also to citizens who experienced suffering and grief because of the pandemic”.
The labour minister, Marina Calderone, said an inspection had been carried out at the Bari hospital after a trade union made complaints over excessive working hours of medical staff during 2021.
A report by Fnomceo in early September found that of the health workers going abroad, the majority had moved to countries in the Gulf, with Saudi Arabia being the most “in demand” destination, followed by the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain.
Authorities in Venice launched an appeal for GPs in July, offering incentives such as subsidised rates on surgery premises, help with providing accommodation and free parking on the edges of the lagoon city.
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