6 hours agoPhysiotherapists are forced to carry oxygen tanks, considered legal offenses
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The physicists have already spent more than thirty days, since they're working on jobs they're not qualified for, and for the whole major crime situation, they have left the KSKUK, which they say didn't even receive at the meeting. This is also considered a violation of the law in view of the article 18 [...]
The physicists have already spent more than thirty days, since they're working on jobs they're not qualified for, and for the whole major crime situation, they have left the KSKUK, which they say didn't even receive at the meeting.
This is considered violation of the law, for the fact that under Article 18 of the labour law, for the worker's temporary arrangement, the employee may be temporarily regulated at work and other tasks, without prior consent but no longer over thirty working days.
The head of the Kosovo Phytorapists' Oda, Feim Gashi, says he has accepted dozens of complaints from the physical therapists, who, according to him, are concerned because without any kind of training, have been forced to perform jobs such as carrying oxygen bonds and offering nursing assistance without being in their profession.
We have a remark that, like Ode and Physiorapy, we have complaints from our members, because they are more than engaged and are doing non-professional work, are doing the secondary work of a technical worker. They are professional health staff, they enter the health chain link, they are not support staff but they are staffs who also OBS has provided recommendations that physical therapy is a chain, a link to the health system, even to patients with the treatment of Covid-19”, he says.
Gashi adds that they have never wanted to withdraw physical therapists from the service, but says the SKKKUK has so far rejected them at the meeting. And for all this created situation, Gashi says they have sought legal interpretation of the fact that as he stressed, this is a violation of the labour law.
And we as the Ode of Physiorapy, we've never made a decision or a statement regarding staff management or to assist the University Clinical Hospital Service... They're still physical therapists today as support staff, until they're like support staff but we don't have a decision, we've asked for legal interpretation from the sponsor of the labour law, where we have Article 18 of work law point 1 and Article 1.1 very well explains how to engage a support staff and with it out of its profession. As far as I remember that point reportedly in a state of emergency in our territory of the Republic of Kosovo is not a state of emergency, at other points the management is right every time within a period of thirty days to change its place of work, it is true but a task with specific tasks which are much smaller generally, which is less than the generality currently at”, Gashi says.
That in the case of physical therapists there are violations of the labour law, Star Zekij, from the Kosovo Institute for Justice, under which the systeming in the interim workplace is lower than the qualifications an employee has for more than thirty days has to do with violation of labour law.
The work law in this case has also seen in special cases that a temporary system becomes, but these when certain conditions are met. We have four conditions under which we can temporarily engage or accommodate those settled in another workplace and when we have natural disasters like earthquake floods, when we have replacements of a fellow worker, increased immediate work volume and in cases when envisioning collective contracts. But in all such cases, no systemisation can be passed to the temporary workplace lower than the qualifications an employee has more than thirty days and any excess of this timeline we have violations of the labour law for which any underemployed employee with this decision could initiate a complaint procedure against these past”, he says.
While incumbent at Hospital Service and University Clinic, Valbon Krasniqi, says of KosovaPress, that the physical therapists' work as support staff is the government's decision of the 5 July, which imposes health institutions to work on the needs of treating patients with Covis-19.
“Not only the physical therapists but also the nurses of other clinics, and doctors of other clinics, most of them have been committed during this time to treating patients with Covid-19, is a decision by the Government of Kosovo on July 5th, which authorises and imposes MSh and other health institutions, including SKKUK, to reorganise and reoriencing them according to the needs for treating patients with cov-19<1) says Krasniqi.
So far about twenty physical therapists engaged in the CKUK and Regional Hospitals are infected with Covid-19.
