Employment Minister Peter Hummelgaard (S) says at a consultation on Thursday night that the government’s forthcoming legislative intervention to stop the ongoing nurses’ strike will not solve the problem of equal pay or not.
– The intervention alone is intended to end a conflict. It is important to separate things.
– We are fully aware that with the intervention in the law we are not resolving the equal pay conflict, which clearly exists in the labor market, and which we must continue to work to resolve, says Hummelgaard.
Thus, he refers to, among other things, the wage structure committee that the government will set up to look at equal pay.
It is the Unity List that has convened the Minister in consultation. It comes after the government announced on Wednesday that it will end the nurses’ strike with a legislative intervention.
On Thursday, the emergency law was first discussed. It is already clear that there is a political majority behind the intervention on Friday. Thereafter, the intervention will take effect on Saturday.
After the nurses voted no to the agreement in the public sector, the nurses on the one hand and the National Association of Local Authorities and Danish Regions on the other side joined the Conciliation Institution.
Here the meetings ended with a mediation proposal, and it is the one that the government will now elevate to law. The sketch contains, among other things, a salary structure committee.
The Unity List criticizes the fact that the committee does not have a financial framework. Hummelgaard does not agree.
– That the committee does not have a funding framework, I think, is natural, because the committee must precisely clarify the salary structures and the consequences of even the same salary structures, he says.
Source: The Nordic Page