The Union of Public Administration Workers and Entities with Public Purposes (Sintap) received information from the board of directors of Hospital de Santo Espírito (HSEIT) on Terceira Island during a meeting held on April 24.
The board informed Sintap that the public recruitment process aimed at the regularization of workers with precarious Covid-19 contracts was concluded. According to the union, “per the understanding of the tutelage and the Ministry of Finance, those contracts will become effective from the date of their signing,” Sintap stated in a communiqué.
Regarding the effective implementation of the Health Auxiliary Technicians’ (TAS) career, the hospital’s board conveyed to Sintap that it will initiate, during May, the process to assess the eligibility of operational assistants for transition to the career, in consultation with both the workers and the tutelage.
As for the payment of retroactive compensation from January 1, 2024, to operational assistants potentially joining the new career path, the union disclosed that “the board of directors did not commit to any specific date.”
In response to Sintap’s concerns about the extraordinary progression accelerator, the HSEIT board assured that it “is doing everything possible” to expedite the process “as swiftly as possible,” the union also indicated.
The union explained that the meeting with the board of the Terceira Island hospital aimed to request the “swift conclusion” of these processes.
