92 result(s) for wage hikes
New Socialist Leader Advocates Left-Wing Cooperation For 2018 Election
- 1 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s leftist parties should cooperate with each other in the 2018 general election by nominating a single candidate in each constituency, Gyula Molnár, the Socialist Party’s newly-elected leader, told MTI in an interview on Thursday. Molnár said his party is capable of winning the election in 2018, arguing that “six out of ten” voters want a new government, four of them should be won over ...
Lázár: Govt Sets Up Working Group On Migration Issues
- 17 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is setting up a working group under the leadership of the justice minister to consider issues connected with migration, János Lázár, the government office chief, told a regular government news briefing. The working group will comprise the heads of the justice ministry, the interior ministry and the prime minister’s office. Their job will be to prepare a report on legal regulations ...
Hungarian Government To Raise Health-Care Wages In September
- 10 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The government has reached an agreement with health-care unions on raising base salaries in the sector starting in September this year, the human resources minister announced on Thursday. The base salary of doctors and pharmacists will increase by gross 107,000 forints (EUR 344) from September 1 this year and by another 100,000 forints from November 1, 2017, Zoltán Balog told a press conference.
Xpat Opinion: Health Service Pay Rise Offers Rejected
- 21 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As health workers’ trade unions reject the government’s pay hike scheme, a health care manager advocates the rationalization of services and the abolition of ‘gratitude money’.
HR Ministry Proposes Bonuses, Wage Hikes For Teaching Assistants
- 20 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The human resources ministry has proposed that public school teaching assistants be given bonuses on two occasions this year and a 10% wage increase in 2017. Deputy state secretary for public education Imre Sipos told MTI after a meeting of the public education roundtable on Tuesday that the proposal affects some 15,000 people and it was supported by the participants at the meeting.
Lázár: Govt Doesn’t Owe Teachers Apology
- 18 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
It is not the government that owes an apology to teachers after spending 266 billion forints (EUR 850m) over the past few years to hike wages in the sector, government office chief János Lázár said at a weekly government press conference. Lázár was commenting on István Pukli, a headmaster who has become the symbolic leader of Hungary’s teacher protest movement, calling on Prime Minister Viktor ...
Official: Health Care Needs To Shed Beds Used For Social Care
- 9 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Clear divisions are needed between hospital beds operated with health care and social needs, Health State Secretary Zoltán Ónodi-Szűcs told commercial TV2. The health-care services plan to reallocate 10,000 beds within the next year and a half to the social services in order to keep these two areas separate.
Teachers Demonstrate For Education Reform In NE Hungary
- 4 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Teachers, students, parents and civil groups held a demonstration in Miskolc, in northeastern Hungary, on Wednesday afternoon against the state of Hungary’s centralised public education system and low wages. The few thousand demonstrators demanded the reduction of centralisation and bureaucracy, restoring the school leaving age to 18 and changes to the teacher career model which links experience ...
Xpat Opinion: 64 Hungarian Doctors Against ‘Gratitude Money’ Demand Healthcare Reforms
- 28 Dec 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As doctors demand higher wages to end so called ‘gratitude payments’ and stop the emigration of health care personnel from Hungary, a centrist columnist thinks that ending the system of illegal payments in hospitals is close to impossible.
In a Facebook initiative, 64 doctors are asking Hungarians to forward their petition in emails addressed to the Ministry of Human Resources. They demand the ...
New Socialist Leader Advocates Left-Wing Cooperation For 2018 Election
- 1 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s leftist parties should cooperate with each other in the 2018 general election by nominating a single candidate in each constituency, Gyula Molnár, the Socialist Party’s newly-elected leader, told MTI in an interview on Thursday. Molnár said his party is capable of winning the election in 2018, arguing that “six out of ten” voters want a new government, four of them should be won over ...
Lázár: Govt Sets Up Working Group On Migration Issues
- 17 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is setting up a working group under the leadership of the justice minister to consider issues connected with migration, János Lázár, the government office chief, told a regular government news briefing. The working group will comprise the heads of the justice ministry, the interior ministry and the prime minister’s office. Their job will be to prepare a report on legal regulations ...
Hungarian Government To Raise Health-Care Wages In September
- 10 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The government has reached an agreement with health-care unions on raising base salaries in the sector starting in September this year, the human resources minister announced on Thursday. The base salary of doctors and pharmacists will increase by gross 107,000 forints (EUR 344) from September 1 this year and by another 100,000 forints from November 1, 2017, Zoltán Balog told a press conference.
Xpat Opinion: Health Service Pay Rise Offers Rejected
- 21 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As health workers’ trade unions reject the government’s pay hike scheme, a health care manager advocates the rationalization of services and the abolition of ‘gratitude money’.
HR Ministry Proposes Bonuses, Wage Hikes For Teaching Assistants
- 20 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The human resources ministry has proposed that public school teaching assistants be given bonuses on two occasions this year and a 10% wage increase in 2017. Deputy state secretary for public education Imre Sipos told MTI after a meeting of the public education roundtable on Tuesday that the proposal affects some 15,000 people and it was supported by the participants at the meeting.
Lázár: Govt Doesn’t Owe Teachers Apology
- 18 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
It is not the government that owes an apology to teachers after spending 266 billion forints (EUR 850m) over the past few years to hike wages in the sector, government office chief János Lázár said at a weekly government press conference. Lázár was commenting on István Pukli, a headmaster who has become the symbolic leader of Hungary’s teacher protest movement, calling on Prime Minister Viktor ...
Official: Health Care Needs To Shed Beds Used For Social Care
- 9 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Clear divisions are needed between hospital beds operated with health care and social needs, Health State Secretary Zoltán Ónodi-Szűcs told commercial TV2. The health-care services plan to reallocate 10,000 beds within the next year and a half to the social services in order to keep these two areas separate.
Teachers Demonstrate For Education Reform In NE Hungary
- 4 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Teachers, students, parents and civil groups held a demonstration in Miskolc, in northeastern Hungary, on Wednesday afternoon against the state of Hungary’s centralised public education system and low wages. The few thousand demonstrators demanded the reduction of centralisation and bureaucracy, restoring the school leaving age to 18 and changes to the teacher career model which links experience ...
Xpat Opinion: 64 Hungarian Doctors Against ‘Gratitude Money’ Demand Healthcare Reforms
- 28 Dec 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As doctors demand higher wages to end so called ‘gratitude payments’ and stop the emigration of health care personnel from Hungary, a centrist columnist thinks that ending the system of illegal payments in hospitals is close to impossible.
In a Facebook initiative, 64 doctors are asking Hungarians to forward their petition in emails addressed to the Ministry of Human Resources. They demand the ...