On strike Friday for their wages and working conditions, medical interns “have a just claim“to stop working hours sometimes”demented“, recognized the Minister of Health, François Braun.
Overworked and underpaid, the interns are called by their unions to stop work to demand a strict count of their working time, but also a revaluation of 300 euros gross per month – or about 15% increase.
“They have salary demands, that’s one thing, but I think they (also) have a fair demand, which is to be treated well in the establishments, not to work completely insane hours“, declared Mr. Braun during a trip to the hospital in Epernay (Marne).
Indeed, their working time “blithely exceeds the legal maximum authorized“of 48 hours per week, and achieved”sometimes more than 100 hours per week“, said Guillaume Bailly, vice-president of the National Intersyndicale of interns (Isni), on Europe 1.
This organization, along with others, however won its case in June 2022 before the Council of State, which reminded hospitals of their obligation to carry out a count “reliable and objective” the working time of their doctors and interns.
A decision which did not change anything in practice, pushing several unions to attack many establishments before the administrative courts, including all of the French university hospitals – with already a first victory in Strasbourg at the end of February.
The government, for its part, established by decree at the beginning of the year “a financial penalty device“to punish hospitals”who do not comply with working time regulations“interns.
“I intend that these rules be respected in all establishments, and of course my door is open to the representatives of the interns, if there are places where these rules are not respected.“, insisted François Braun.
2023-04-28 11:56:40
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