The Sanitas Federation says that the Ministry of Health is preparing a draft of an emergency resolution, which provides for the reduction of funding for the payment of vacation vouchers for several categories of personnel, in particular, employees who are part-time security guards in the UPYU. under contract, for example, and UPU staff involved in SMURD interventions or residents.

• “The project of the GEO of the Ministry of Health reduces the funding of the payment of vacation vouchers for several categories of personnel: employees who provide security at the UPU/CPU under an incomplete employment contract; residents; UPY staff involved in SMURD interventions; sports medicine offices, legal medicine offices, family planning offices, programs such as TBC, LSM, UPU, HIV/AIDS, programs for dystrophies, employees who carry out scientific and research activities,” says the press release of the Sanitas Federation, published on Facebook.

The trade unions claim that, according to the Ministry, “these workers do not need rest, so it is no longer necessary to receive those permits that contribute to the restoration of working capacity after the activities performed during the year!”.

• “And this is under the conditions in which the current law clearly states: “state institutions, regardless of the system of funding and subordination, annually provide vacation vouchers in the amount of 1450 lei for an employee” (Article 1, Clause 2 GEO 8/ 2009). And also the Law on Health Protection (Law 95/2006), which clearly states that the Ministry must finance the provision of vacation vouchers for these categories of workers.
• The Ministry of Health is not the first “offender”, it seems that it has long been scrutinizing vacation tickets for certain categories of employees of the system, and the SANITAS Federation had to take a number of steps to prevent their discrimination.” This is stated in the statement of the Sanitas federation.

In May 2022, Sanitas informed the ministry that workers working in the UPU/CPU were not receiving leave because the central government and hospital management had not agreed on who was legally required to provide the funding.

The trade unions also reported that at the meeting of the social dialogue commission, the federation will not vote for amendments to the Law on Health Care in the sense proposed by this project.

At the same time, Sanitas is asking the Ministry of Health to amend the legislation to allow all health care workers to use state-funded holiday vouchers without discrimination, just like any other category of public-sponsored workers.