This question may be asked for a variety of reasons. Is it time to renew an employment agreement with your group practice? Does your group practice need a basis to make an offer to a prospective physician? Or, as is often the case these days, are you wondering what a hospital might pay or do… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Labor and Employment
Subscribe to Labor and Employment RSS FeedNLRB Settles Case Over Employee’s Facebook Comment
Posted in Labor and EmploymentEarlier last year, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against a company for firing an employee who criticized her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The employee was terminated for violating of the company’s policy prohibiting employees from portraying the employer negatively or disparaging co-workers or supervisors on social media. The employee, an emergency… Continue Reading
WAGE & HOUR
Posted in Labor and EmploymentIn 2010, U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL) announced that two out of three healthcare employers audited in New York were not in compliance and undertook to actively investigate wage and hour issues for these healthcare entities. In addition to increased government enforcement, the healthcare industry has become an attractive target for private… Continue Reading
Unions Aggressively Target Health Care Industry
Posted in Labor and EmploymentEarlier this year, the Bureau of Labor indicated that “the healthcare industry is not heavily unionized.” However, with health care expected to “generate 3.2 million new wage and salary jobs between 2008 and 2018,” organized labor or unions have aggressively targeted the industry. A study conducted by IRI Consultants for the American Society for Healthcare… Continue Reading