Will patients be left without care? Full-time doctors will not receive the salaries they currently have

Employers are warning that granting labor inspectors the power to transform civil law contracts into full-time positions threatens to destabilize health care and significantly reduce the availability of services for patients – reports “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”.

The daily reminds that the National Labor Inspectorate will gain new powers, enabling its inspectors to transform civil law contracts, including B2B contracts, into employment contracts when they determine that the employment is performed on a full-time basis.

“Regulations intended to protect employees against abuse are very worrying for employers in health care. This is one of the industries where contracts are the dominant form of employment. According to the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System, as many as 74 percent of medical specialists perform their duties on the basis of B2B contracts or business activities,” says “DGP”.

“Most surgeons and radiologists will leave overnight for private entities, because under the employment contract they will not be able to receive the remuneration they currently have. Or they will demand a salary of PLN 100,000 a month,” says the director of the Independent Public Clinical Hospital, quoted by “DGP”. prof. Orłowski in Warsaw Tomasz Kopiec.

The daily reported that employer organizations are appealing to the Minister of Health for intervention. However, “the ministry does not see the possibility of creating special solutions for the health care sector that would protect it against top-down decisions of the National Labor Inspectorate.” (PAP)

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