Association seeks full salary for nurses on probation

Amritsar, May 7 The Nursing Association at Government Medical College here has asked the government to scrap probation period of nursing staff and pay them full salaries, as they were risking their lives during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As per...

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 01:21 PM May 08, 2020 IST

Amritsar, May 7

The Nursing Association at Government Medical College here has asked the government to scrap probation period of nursing staff and pay them full salaries, as they were risking their lives during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

As per government rules, the newly recruited employees get only basic salary during the period of their probation. Association president Narinder Buttar said: “The nursing staff on probation period gets only Rs10,300 as monthly salary. We demand that to encourage the staff, full salaries be paid during the probation period.”

The association has also demanded that services of contractual nursing staff be regularised. Buttar said many nurses were working on contract basis for the past 10 years. She said the government should regularise the services of all contractual health employees. — TNS

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