Image: Junior doctors protest - Not fair, not safe.
Finally, junior doctors have taken to the streets in protest. In Manchester and London, thousands of young doctors marched last week against the Conservative government's plans to change junior doctors' employment contracts. These changes redefine “unsocial hours” such that any work between 7am and 10pm, Monday to Saturday, will be paid at only standard rates.
This move would sweep away the “average work week” first set out by the 1850 Factory Act, and defended by decades of activism since. The result would be a 20-40% pay drop for junior doctors like me.
