As we leave 2022 behind us, here are seven things healthcare employers should watch for in 2023. Members of the Jackson Lewis Healthcare Industry group work with clients on all these issues daily...
In an unpublished decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has denied an acute- care hospital’s request to stay a representation election based on the COVID-19 pandemic. Crozer-Chest...
In a decision that affects both union and non-union employers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has taken what is likely the first step toward reining in the expanded scope of w...
This article on our Workplace Resource Center about discharging employees for participating in a discussion on Facebook may be of particular interest to healthcare employers grappling with employ...
https://www.healthcareworkplaceupdate.com/labor/firings-for-facebook-comments-unlawful-nlrb-rules/
A hospital’s newly implemented dress code policy was a material, substantial, and significant change to union employees’ terms and conditions of employment that required bargaining with the u...
A nursing home’s policy prohibiting off-duty employees from remaining on its premises after their shift “unless previously authorized by” their supervisor interfered with the labor rights o...
A hospital’s code of conduct forbidding comments that stray beyond “fair criticism” and behavior detrimental to “promoting teamwork” were unlawful, NLRB Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) S...
Click here for the full post which appeared yesterday on Jackson Lewis’ Labor & Collective Bargaining blog.
A union’s labor agreement to arbitrate any unresolved disputes about its organizing of employees and bargaining with a hospital did not demonstrate that the Union waived its right to file unfai...
The NLRB’s Division of Advice found in Tasker Healthcare Grp. d/b/a Skinsmart Dermatology (4-CA-94222, 5/8/2013) that an employer did not violate the NLRA when it discharged the charging party ...