Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Article 2, paragraph 2(b), in conjunction with Article 5, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Determination of conditions of employment by negotiation between employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that public sector nursing personnel were covered by a collective agreement discussed at the meeting concerning labour standards in the health sector of the national public service. It notes that this agreement regulated employment in this sector during the 2006–08 period. The Committee requests the Government to supply a copy of the collective agreement currently in force for nursing personnel in the public sector and also of any similar collective agreement applicable to nursing personnel in the private sector.

Article 4. Legislation concerning the requirements for the provision of nursing care and nursing services. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the adoption of the Act of 26 July 2005 concerning the provision of professional nursing care (Official Gazette No. 38263 of 1 September 2005), which regulates, inter alia, the requirements for the provision of nursing care and nursing services – following the decision taken between 1985 and 1990 to professionalize and gradually raise the required level of study – remuneration, penalties for infringements and also the powers of the Federation of Professional Nursing Associations (FCPEV) and its bodies. It also notes that this Act mentions implementing regulations (to be adopted 180 days after the entry into force of the Act) and also regulations relating to minimum remuneration received by nursing personnel in the private sector drawn up by the FCPEV and the health ministry. Since these regulations are not available to the Office, the Committee requests the Government to supply a copy. The Committee would also be grateful to receive more detailed information on requirements for the teaching and training of nursing personnel and also on any teaching or training programme drawn up further to the adoption of the new Act. Finally, the Committee requests the Government to indicate whether – and, if so, how – competent professional bodies have been involved in the formulation and implementation of the new policy and the general principles applicable to the nursing profession in the fields of teaching, training and the exercise of the profession.

Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee requests the Government to provide a general description of the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, for example, statistics on the numbers of nursing personnel – by sectors of activity and by levels of training and functions, if possible – and the nurse-to-population ratio, the number of persons entering and leaving the profession each year, copies of official reports or studies relating to nursing services, information concerning any practical difficulties encountered in the implementation of the Convention, such as understaffing or migration of nursing personnel, etc.