Government-employed doctors signed an agreement with the government last night for a binding arbitration to adjudicate the doctors’ demands for higher salaries and shorter working hours.
A neutral arbitrator must be selected by both sides within 48 hours of the signing. The arbitrator will have 40 days to make a determination in the dispute. The decision to seek arbitration, originally opposed by the government, brought to an end the four month long doctors’ strike and a two week hunger strike by doctors which had made it impossible for hospitals to continue to function.
Points in dispute between the government-employed physicians and doctors employed by Kupat Holim, the Histadrut sick fund, were clarified by an exchange of letters between the two parties. The sick fund doctors had joined in the general strike but were returning to normal duties before the arbitration decision.
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