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No need to sacrifice workers rights
04 March 2005
No need to sacrifice workers rights for patient rights
“There is no need to sacrifice workers’ rights for patient rights” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
“The Health & Disability Commissioner seems to be ignoring the rights of doctors as employees which are guaranteed as human rights by international law, and by our own domestic law” he said.
“Doctors who are subject of a patient’s complaint are entitled to a fair process and it is surprising that the Commissioner is arguing publicly that “reasonable cause” need not be shown before a doctor is suspended.” Ross Wilson.
“Patients rights are important but it is unacceptable for a senior Government official in a quasi-judicial role to be suggesting that a doctor’ s human rights and fair process as an employee can be overridden” he said.
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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