Lengthy talks over workload and resulting health issues between trade union Ver.di and the Berlin based Charité hospital group have yielded an agreement on jobs. The group will hire 80 additional workers and a joint committee will investigate particular units of the hospital group where the workload is considered excessive by employees.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/10541
German: http://gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de/ueber-uns/nachrichten ...
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