Labor Dispute

Honduras's Colegio Médico continues work stoppages into a 41-day labor dispute, maintaining 15 demands including wage adjustments, contract signings, and rehiring of dismissed physicians, while public-hospital outpatient services remain suspended and patient backlogs grow.

Sitrainfop, the union at Honduras's National Vocational Training Institute (Infop), has filed a complaint accusing the institution of retaining L4.3 million (about $172,000) in union dues deducted from workers' pay for August–October 2026 and refusing to recognize fired union leader Antolino Díaz in collective-bargaining talks.

Honduras's Medical College is holding a 12-hour nationwide assembly on October 12 to press 15 labor demands, including halted dismissals, back pay, and a 12% budget allocation to public health, with emergency and critical-care units required to maintain coverage.

Honduras's Medical College convened a nationwide assembly on October 4 to address labor grievances including an end to dismissals, reinstatement of fired professionals, and unpaid wages, with emergency services required to remain staffed.

The president of Honduras's nursing professional association says the government has delayed rehiring nurses and made unjustified area transfers, and has set October 12 as a deadline for concrete answers on labor demands, citing a three-month legal window before complaints expire.

A work stoppage by the Honduran Medical Association has canceled roughly 30,000 outpatient consultations at public hospitals in recent weeks, with physicians continuing assemblies on September 25 to press demands over salaries, contracts, and working conditions.

Honduras's Medical College has prolonged nationwide informational assemblies in the public health system, pressing for resolution of unjustified layoffs, back pay for over 1,300 health workers owed up to eight months of salary, and broader healthcare instability.

Professional nurses and the government reached a partial accord to address labor demands, with the government committing to hire 94 nursing staff members.

Patients at public hospitals face delays as doctors conduct nationwide informational assemblies, while nurses threaten to join the action if the health ministry fails to meet demands on job stability, wages, and reintegrations.

About 350 census takers and supervisors in Atlántida protested at the regional governor's office on September 21, demanding full payment for August–September work and a formal new contract after the INE failed to pay them and their initial contract expired.

The Honduran Medical College has called all physicians nationwide to an emergency informational assembly on Sunday at 7 a.m.

Honduras's nursing professionals, with about 480 under temporary contracts and 90 unrecontracted, have given the Health Ministry until a September 18 meeting to address staffing and wage demands or face a national strike the following week.

About 400 workers at banana farms in San Manuel, Cortés occupied company installations over wage arrears, saying they have not been paid for two and a half months and received only 50% of last week's pay from the cooperative CASMUL.

More than 400 interim-contract physicians in Honduras are owed up to nine months of salary; after Friday's failed talks with the Health Ministry yielded no payment date, doctors are continuing nationwide hospital assemblies that suspend scheduled patient care.

Nurses at Hospital Aníbal Murillo Escobar in Olanchito have begun informational assemblies over the firing of a colleague named Damaris, who was employed under contract since 2024; union leaders warn that protests may escalate if the Health Ministry does not explain or reverse the dismissal.

Municipal workers reinstated by court order after layoffs in 2022–2023 remain relegated to a hallway in poor conditions at a San Pedro Sula city building, prompting human-rights groups to document the situation and urge the city to reassign them properly.

A former driver for Suyapa Medios, the Catholic Church media foundation, has sued over his dismissal after nearly 11 years of employment, claiming the company violated labor law and left him without health coverage while battling biliary cancer.

Honduras's Medical College (CMH) gave the government three days to pay over two months of back wages to public-sector doctors and reinstate physicians who were dismissed, threatening escalated labor action if demands are not met.

San Pedro Sula municipality faces nearly L48 million in unpaid court-ordered settlements to employees who won labor lawsuits, with reintegrated workers relegated to office hallways without duties and suffering heat-related health problems while awaiting payment.

Transport leaders from five major cities announced plans for a nationwide strike next week unless the government pays a pending compensation bonus and addresses security threats facing the sector.

An administrative employee dismissed from Instituto Departamental Honduras in José Santos Guardiola has been reinstated after teachers and union representatives protested the firing, though the school remains occupied by demonstrators demanding full resolution.

Honduras's teaching unions are threatening nationwide protests if the government does not halt the firing of approximately 2,000 administrative, custodial, and security staff from schools, roles they say are essential to school operations.

Honduras's nursing association is warning it will hold informational assemblies if the Health Ministry does not reinstate about 100 fired nurses, pay overdue benefits, and establish a promised technical committee to address grievances.

Lobster fishermen warned they will occupy Puerto Cortés and La Ceiba ports unless the government by June 15 unifies closure seasons for lobster, conch, and sea cucumber, and forgives debts from licensing and canon fees that they say crippled the industry last season.

President Asfura's government and the Medical College of Honduras agreed on a new salary scale, reinstatement of separated physicians, and improved benefits for health-sector workers, ending the physicians' nationwide informational assemblies.

Honduras's Medical College escalated its strike into an eighth day of nationwide assemblies at health facilities, demanding answers on layoffs, reinstatements, back pay, and formal contracts for physician managers.

The Medical College of Honduras and Health Ministry agreed to strengthen dialogue channels to address physician demands, but doctors will continue informational assemblies at healthcare facilities while consulting union members on any agreements.

With Honduras's medical system disrupted for 39 days by doctor work actions over unpaid salaries, Deputy Labor Minister Daniel Discua warned the government may pursue legal measures and set Friday as a deadline to resolve pending payments, claiming about 90% of medical staff payroll is current.

Transport union leaders meeting in Siguatepeque have decided against strikes during the Morazán holiday and given the government two weeks to address their demands.

Teachers and staff have occupied Instituto Departamental Honduras on the Bay Islands since the dismissal of Marliz Carina Gómez Marín, an administrative employee, demanding her reinstatement and citing lack of due process and protections for indigenous workers.