A note on the official page of the Presidency of the Republic states that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has “promulgated the government diploma that establishes the conditions for counting points in terms of evaluating the performance of nursing staff at the time of transition to nursing and special nursing careers nursing”.
The decree-law was approved by the Council of Ministers on November 10, and the then Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, referred at the time that this freeze on nurses’ salary development will be retroactive to January of this year, and will have a “budgetary impact” of 72 million euros.
The minister assured that payments to nurses would be made later this year, emphasizing that the diploma “is the epitome of the recovery of lost points in terms of performance assessment in view of nurses’ salary increase, the freeze of progress, which had been in place since 2004 suspended”.
About 20,000 nurses are covered, according to the government, which has promised an increase of about 200 euros for nurses with points to move up a salary step and 400 euros for those moving up two steps.
The minister also stressed that the diploma guarantees that nurses are “treated in an equitable manner, regardless of the respective SNS affiliation regime” as it applies “both to nurses with an employment contract in public positions, and to nurses with a contract individual work”.
Source: DN
