Minimum wages: The Health Committee recommends the rejection of all Senate amendments

These amendments, proposed separately by the Senate, were rejected by the Health Committee with a bloc, despite the justification of the Senate's resolution and MPs' votes, reminding them that the Senate wanted to protect the real value of the increases planned and agreed in the fall with these amendments - and since then the situation has fundamentally changed because inflation is already starting to exceed the rate of wage growth in the economy (meanwhile, the base amount used to calculate wages is the national average, but from the previous year).

The Senate's amendments were supported by the presence of representatives of nurses and midwives - both at the meeting of the Health Committee and in front of the Sejm, where they conduct a two-day picket. However, they did not have a chance to speak at the meeting, and a small majority, but the majority of members of the Health Committee, supported the position of the government, which rejects the Senate's amendments in full.

The Sejm's opinion of the Health Committee is obviously not binding, but the adoption of even some of the amendments proposed by the upper chamber (apart from those increasing the coefficients, the Senate proposed, among others, an amendment to prevent disproportions in the remuneration of people employed in the same position in various institutions of this the medical entity itself or obliging employers to raise the salaries of medical and non-medical workers in the month following the month in which they improved their qualifications, and not once a year) seems unlikely. It all depends on the mobilization on both sides - the parliamentary majority and the opposition - and the distribution of the votes of the deputies who often vote with the government (but can support the opposition on this matter).