Junior doctors will be thousands of dollars a year better off after the NSW government struck a deal to end a court battle with their union and agreed to improved working conditions that doctors say will make patients safer.
“Our first goal was to ensure our members are paid what they are owed, but our most critical objective was to improve junior doctors’ working conditions and ensure that future generations of doctors won’t get burnt out and leave the system,” he said. The union had alleged NSW Health was breaching the award by paying registrars as third-year residents, and therefore underpaying its junior doctor workforce to the tune of millions of dollars a year.Dr Yvonne Nguyen, one of the union representatives negotiating the settlement, said women were even less likely to claim overtime and allowances, creating a huge deterrent for young doctors coming through the system.
He said the deal would ensure doctors were paid for the work they do and safeguard against junior medical staff working dangerously long hours. The 62 junior doctors named in the union’s action will receive equivalent backpay to what they would have received through the class action.
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