Nursing Unions Critical of HSE

Nursing unions are warning that a new health service employment scheme will force graduates overseas. 1,000 nurses and midwives are to be hired by the Health Service Executive next year on 80 percent of the current pay scale. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association say the HSE is being exploitative. They are calling for a complete boycott - saying contracts issued to graduates in 2012 are being terminated as a result.

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