The Federal Court’s ruling against Peninsula Health could set a precedent for junior doctors from hospitals across the country being awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.
and increased the chances of clinical errors due to the excessive workload, which has raised concerns that the burnout affecting junior medicos was putting patients at risk.
, amid claims they are working beyond exhaustion, underpaid and not given mandatory clinical training. Dr Jill Tomlinson, Victorian president of the Australian Medical Association, says doctors should be paid for the hours they work.Gordon Legal partner Andrew Grech said it was time the Victorian government acted, and called on Peninsula Health and state’s Department of Health secretary, professor Euan Wallace, to commit to ending wage theft among trainee doctors.
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