The employer's policy has sparked strong reactions, reports Göteborgs-Posten.
"Staff are struggling to get to work to take care of patients," an employee writes to the newspaper and continues: "Meanwhile, management is sitting at home in a digital meeting with their colleagues and deciding that employees will only be paid for the time they are at their workplace."
Matilda Eriksson at the Västra Götaland Healthcare Association notes that the employer is not violating labor law, but adds:
The more common working from home becomes, the more morally questionable it is that healthcare professionals suffer salary deductions when they cannot get to work.
Madelene Johansson, staff director at Sahlgrenska, writes in an email to GP that the hospital complies with the law.
