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Labour’s pledge to put No 10’s planned 1 per cent pay rise for nurses at the heart of its local election campaign could mean that one well-heeled minister’s nonchalant dismissal of the nurses’ case will come back to haunt the Government.
‘There are many people in this country who look upon professional jobs in the NHS with some envy,’ Health Minister Lord Bethell said last week.
‘Nurses are well paid for the job. They have a secure job and they have other benefits.’
Is Bethell, a hereditary peer, the right man to talk about nurses’ pay? He lives with his venture capitalist wife Melissa Wong in a four-storey house in Notting Hill, which cost £6.3 million in 2011, but has since doubled in value. What’s more, they have a swish holiday home in Majorca.
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Daily Monitor
Sunday February 07 2021
NSSF managing Director Richard Byarugaba addresses the annual members meeting in Kampala on September 28,2020.Members of Parliament on Tuesday accused government of deliberately delaying the passing of the National Social Security Fund Amendment Bill, 2019. PHOTO/ KELVIN ATUHAIRE
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The issue: Midterm benefits.
Our view: This Bill must be prioritised as a matter of urgency and any attempts to derail the process must be condemned in public interest. The procrasti-nation on either side must stop.
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It baffles workers and the country as a whole to hear that a pro-people Bill that seeks to amend the NSSF Act Cap 222 and provide for midterm benefits to distressed members, can be left in limbo for all these months.
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Apart from limiting sitting days from four to two a week, Parliament on Friday announced additional measures to firm up the observance of Covid-19 protocols.
The measures have become necessary after a number of Members and Staff of the House tested positive in a recent health screening exercise.
Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin had earlier on Thursday informed the House that 15 Members of Parliament (MPs), 56 Parliamentary Staff had tested positive to Covid-19, in a recent test done by the Noguchi Memorial Centre for Medical Research in the House.
Speaker Bagbin in the announcement said the MPs and Staff had been contacted and advised to self-isolate and had been given prescriptions to facilitate their recovery.