{"id":181774,"date":"2024-10-03T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-600-govt-intern-doctors-await-overtime-payment-a-year-after-labour-commission-ruling\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:15:16","slug":"namibia-over-600-govt-intern-doctors-await-overtime-payment-a-year-after-labour-commission-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-600-govt-intern-doctors-await-overtime-payment-a-year-after-labour-commission-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Over 600 Govt Intern Doctors Await Overtime Payment a Year After Labour Commission Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>More than 600 government intern doctors are still waiting to be paid for overtime work a year after the Labour Commission recognised them as state employees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The medical interns&#8217; lawyer, Wilbard Kagola of Henry Shimutwikeni &amp; Co Inc, says the Ministry of Health and Social Services has been avoiding communicating on the matter, and has not complied with the ruling.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><strong>&#8220;We have not received any response from the health ministry since the ruling, even though we sent the ministry and the government the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 600 government intern doctors are still waiting to be paid for overtime work a year after the Labour Commission recognised them as state employees. The medical interns&#8217; lawyer, Wilbard Kagola of Henry Shimutwikeni &amp; Co Inc, says the Ministry of Health and Social Services has been avoiding communicating on the matter, and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00531967:0468f56f2edd7e66324192d18904cea4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,22443,6274,6827,4357,38888,8361,4706,724,257,3423,10122,7870,254,6537],"class_list":["post-181774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-await","tag-commission","tag-doctors","tag-govt","tag-intern","tag-labour","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-overtime","tag-payment","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00531967:0468f56f2edd7e66324192d18904cea4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}