📋 Tender Overview
The government proposes a compulsory wage board to resolve the conflict between the Norwegian Medical Association and KS. At the request of Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Henrik Asheim the parties have said that they will end the strike so that everyone can return to work as soon as possible.In a report the Norwegian Board of Health has assessed the situation in the conflict between the Norwegian Medical Association and KS so that there will be a danger to life and health when the escalation is implemented on Monday morning.The Norwegian Board of Health writes that the announced escalation affects small municipalities with few doctors. This situation will immediately affect the health service in the affected municipalities and there will be problems in several municipalities already during Monday.Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Henrik Asheim emphasizes that he is unhappy that the responsibility for the consequences of the conflict was shifted to the government. It is the parties themselves who are basically responsible for finding a solution.Stopping a legal labor dispute is a serious interference in what is actually the responsibility of the parties.But as the situation developed I had no other choice says the minister.According to the Norwegian Board of Health in one of the affected municipalities two out of three doctors have gone on strike. The municipality has had its application for a dispensation for both doctors rejected. The municipality handles immediate help during the day via the three doctors in their function as GPs. The doctors in question have gone on strike in all their medical functions ie as employed GPs emergency doctors supervising doctors and municipal chief physicians. On Monday 2 November one doctor who has not been taken on strike is absent. There will therefore be no doctors available in the municipality from Monday morning at. 08.00.
