In the coming Wednesday, a nurses 'strike is expected in protest of raising the retirement age for women, while at the same time negotiations between the Nurses' Federation and the Ministry of Finance are continuing.
As part of the strike, the nursing staff in the hospitals will work on a Saturday basis.
There will be no nursing staff in clinics, institutes or day hospitals.
Only urgent surgeries will be performed in the operating rooms.
The afternoon surgeries will not take place without the approval of the Exceptions Committee.
Intensive care departments will also have a small staff.
However Corona wards will be fully staffed and an exceptions committee will be set up at each hospital.
The Histadrut requires the nurses to be excluded from raising the retirement age to 65 or to provide unique solutions to burnout due to raising the retirement age.
The corona wards will continue to operate as usual // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
Addressing the Minister of Finance with the declaration of the labor dispute, the chairwoman of the Nurses' Federation, Ilana Cohen, wrote: Normal '.
"There seems to be a fundamental mistake in our translation of the nurses 'work as a mission. A mission does not mean slavery and it would certainly not be proper and fair to exploit the nurses' dedication and professionalism to harm their working conditions.
On the contrary."
Cohen turned to Lieberman, noting that "just as you demanded that the nurses stand up for the State of Israel at the forefront of the fourth wave of the Corona virus, so do you stand by us in excluding the sisters from raising the retirement age."
