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Written by: Zhu Haiqi and Zheng Cuibi
2021-03-25 19:12
Last update date: 2021-03-25 19:12
After the epidemic hit Hong Kong for more than a year, the Hospital Authority has maintained the emergency response level and has set up an "Emergency Response Special Allowance" for employees working in high-risk areas and monitoring wards.
A trade union received a complaint from the medical and nursing staff of the United Hospital, stating that the Intensive Care Department had to withdraw the subsidy issued for more than 10 days last year because it did not accept patients with new coronary pneumonia. It is estimated that each person will deduct a maximum of 4,000 yuan.
The labor union criticized the HA for its unfair practices.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital Authority Gao Basheng said that the allowance will be paid at the same standard, and the authorities will re-examine it and appeal to colleagues not to worry.
The Hospital Authority established the "Special Allowance for Emergency Response" at the beginning of the epidemic last year. Employees working in high-risk areas are entitled to an allowance. The daily allowance is 20% of the employee’s basic salary or $500, whichever is higher Until the emergency response level is lifted.
Union: About 60 to 70 people have their allowances withdrawn
Liu Kaiwen, director of the Hong Kong Professional Medical Staff and Nurses Association, said that they received complaints from the intensive care department of the United Hospital. They quoted the hospital saying that since the intensive care department did not accept confirmed patients for more than 10 days last year, the allowance for the relevant time should be deducted. Each person can deduct a maximum of 4,000 yuan, which involves about 60 to 70 people.
Liu Kaiwen criticized the Hospital Authority for retorting and violating the original agreement with medical care.
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Liu Kaiwen said that regardless of whether there are confirmed patients in the ward, colleagues must be fully equipped to take care of the patients at any time, and the hospital has promised that regardless of whether there are confirmed patients in the ward, colleagues in the Intensive Care Department will receive allowances.
He criticized that the HA’s current practices were unfair and violated the original agreement. "Having promised colleagues, the fight against the epidemic made everyone insist on it, but it turned out to be er, er, 凼凼, when the colleague was 優?" The subsidy will be followed by other hospitals, and it will be "large-scale backwater."
Gao Basheng: colleagues in the human resources department will re-examine
The Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital Authority Gao Basheng said today (25th) that the special emergency allowance was introduced last year and is still paid at the same standard.
He noticed that some hospitals were accused of requesting to withdraw the special allowances from colleagues. He understood that individual hospitals may be inaccurate in calculating the allowances. He emphasized that colleagues in the human resources department would re-examine them and appealed to colleagues not to worry.
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