Health workers’ salaries unpaid for more than eight months

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Health workers’ salaries unpaid for more than eight months
By PUANGCHOMPOO PRASERT
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THOUSANDS of doctors, dentists and pharmacists who started working for state hospitals last May have not received their salaries.

 

“Never before have doctors had to wait this long for their salary,” said Dr Pradit Chaiyabud, who heads a confederation of medical centres and general hospitals.

 

He urged relevant authorities, such as the Public Health Ministry, the Office of Civil Service Commission (OCSC) and the Finance Ministry, to solve the problem quickly.

 

More than 2,000 new graduates started working as government doctors more than eight months ago. With their salaries long overdue, there is a risk that they may give up on state hospitals and head for better pay at private medical facilities instead. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30305051

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-01-27

[kannot]

Ive got an idea instead of wasting money on these doctors  dentists etc lets buy some submarines and  build a hi speed rail  link to the south...............oh  wait!!

Never  mind the shocking roads, lets also add new   village speakers so we can broadcast the news  to our faithful flock every  morning form 5.30am to 8am..............happiness to the people.............TOTAL SHIT!

[rkidlad]

Who cares about doctors and nurses for the poor? Better spend that money making sure the names of the people who were caught up in the RR bribery case never see daylight. Also, hire some lawyers to protect the porn thief's good name when he comes back from Japan. 

[Fookhaht]

My initial teacher's salary was delayed four months at a gov't. school. Same with many other teachers. Hardly newsworthy.

T.I.T.


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[waldroj]

"...new medical staff who had not received their salaries for several months could get interest-free loans to cover their personal expenses..."

 

Wouldn't it be just as easy to pay them their salary then??? 

 

Seems that the sick are not the only ones kept waiting at public hospitals. 

[newcomer71]

Well, I'm sure that those workers will be happy to read news about submarine and tanks project have money ready to be spent, while they have to wait to receive their salary...

Oh but wait! They give them a 0% LOAN towards their well-earned salary to afford to eat! Ah well, then...

[klauskunkel]

they could all be advisors to ThaiBev and receive 50,000/month 

[Don Mega]

If the salary is not hitting the bank account each month why bother showing up to work ?

[chainarong]

2 hours ago, kannot said:

Ive got an idea instead of wasting money on these doctors  dentists etc lets buy some submarines and  build a hi speed rail  link to the south...............oh  wait!!

Never  mind the shocking roads, lets also add new   village speakers so we can broadcast the news  to our faithful flock every  morning form 5.30am to 8am..............happiness to the people.............TOTAL SHIT!

Say's it all realy

[Rhys]

...and they complain when these hard working professionals seek employment elsewhere... MOPH  staff salaries are never late? ....never

[maewang99]

if you don't need to pay them... don't.

next? 

[soalbundy]

There was a communist Russian saying, They pretend that they pay us and we pretend that we work.

[mike324]

Thousands of new grads that started working are unpaid because there positions weren't approved by the  Office of Civil Service Commission . Yet how is the Public Health Ministry able to hire for positions that weren't approved? There is more to this.

[slapout]

Might be another group brainchild put into practice, '' pay the highest paid salaries first'' as those are the people who keep funds coming thru the skimmers  whp have channels of access. I wonder how many within the 3 groups mentioned get monthly payments from companies selling medicine/supplies? I doubt that this is against rules of good moral conduct..

 

rotten to and thru the core, its in the right place to be sicking for sure.

[baboon]

3 hours ago, Fookhaht said:

My initial teacher's salary was delayed four months at a gov't. school. Same with many other teachers. Hardly newsworthy.

T.I.T.


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It is highly newsworthy. In some countries it might shame officials into getting their act together once such a scandal is made public. It is what journalism is meant to be all about.

[TheFishman1]

Where else in the world could you expect to work for month and not get paid the high ups are to busy getting there Tea money TIT

[little mary sunshine]

What's the problem....PAY THESE PROFESSIONALS !!

[Fookhaht]

4 hours ago, Don Mega said:

If the salary is not hitting the bank account each month why bother showing up to work ?

Two thoughts come to mind:

 

1)  It's called job security.  If you quit before that first month's salary comes, you forfeit a long-term career opportunity, which is especially sweet when it's a government job (benefits, retirement, status, etc.).

 

2)  The "conspiracy theory" part of me says it's a ploy to weed out the non-committed.  In the middle of a 9-year career at one school, my salary (along with four other other foreign teachers) stopped for 3 months for unexplained reasons.  I played their games and got the loans to keep rice on the table.  The other teachers moaned, bitched and threatened (rightfully so).  Guess who got their contract renewed the next year, and who didn't?  It definitely reinforced my theory.  There is a time to stand up, and there's a time to play the game, as long as it's no skin off my nose.   The school had broken their contract to me.  This history came in handy when I asked for a few extra vacation days (beyond my contract) to visit a sick relative.  No problem.  

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, Fookhaht said:

My initial teacher's salary was delayed four months at a gov't. school. Same with many other teachers. Hardly newsworthy.

T.I.T.


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But it is newsworthy. You just enlightened me and others to this fact. Now how far does this disgrace extend? To buy useless submarines and short doctors and teachers of their salaries is a national disgrace. 

[elgordo38]

Reading this article and the one posted just above quote sure makes my blood boil. 

• Police Chief’s ‘advisory’ cash from booze company deemed totally legit

[Fookhaht]

18 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

But it is newsworthy. You just enlightened me and others to this fact. Now how far does this disgrace extend? To buy useless submarines and short doctors and teachers of their salaries is a national disgrace. 

I concede in part:  newsworthy to newbies.   Whenever I share this with Thais, the usual response is either "jai yen" (chill out), or "so?"   Again, T.I.T.  

[elgordo38]

1 minute ago, Fookhaht said:

I concede in part:  newsworthy to newbies.   Whenever I share this with Thais, the usual response is either "jai yen" (chill out), or "so?"   Again, T.I.T.  

Yes sadly your right docility carries the day here. The junta/military has found the perfect host to feed upon. Countries are becoming islands unto themselves it seems. 

[Moonmoon]

1 hour ago, Fookhaht said:

Two thoughts come to mind:

 

1)  It's called job security.  If you quit before that first month's salary comes, you forfeit a long-term career opportunity, which is especially sweet when it's a government job (benefits, retirement, status, etc.).

 

2)  The "conspiracy theory" part of me says it's a ploy to weed out the non-committed.  In the middle of a 9-year career at one school, my salary (along with four other other foreign teachers) stopped for 3 months for unexplained reasons.  I played their games and got the loans to keep rice on the table.  The other teachers moaned, bitched and threatened (rightfully so).  Guess who got their contract renewed the next year, and who didn't?  It definitely reinforced my theory.  There is a time to stand up, and there's a time to play the game, as long as it's no skin off my nose.   The school had broken their contract to me.  This history came in handy when I asked for a few extra vacation days (beyond my contract) to visit a sick relative.  No problem.  

the organisation that employs workers and plays these kind of games with their employees r sick and should not do it. 

I believe they are bound by contract to pay their workers on time and base their assessment of contract renewal on job performance and not who complains or bitch when they are not being paid.

Everyone has bills and family to take care of, it is simply not fair to do that to a worker at all.

I have 2 retail shops in Thailand and am running a small business here. I have never delayed a day or 2 when it comes to paying my staff.

I don't believe in playing games cos it is work and not a game.

I am not disagreeing with u, just the organisation that employs u that does these to their workers. I cannot blame the workers for complaining. unless the organisation or company has actually inform the workers before hand of their difficulties.  Thumbs up to u for being able to suck it up when the tough gets going.