Could it be that the place where I buy cheap bananas is about to sink the National Labor Relations Board?
NLRB’s new joint-employer standard: How it impacts long-term care facilities
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Jennifer Long
Dec 21, 2023
Does your long-term care facility exercise either direct or indirect control of the work conditions for all the outside caregivers and other workers who are on your campus regularly? This will be the important...
When judges play favorites
By
John O'Connor
Aug 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board gave skilled care operators another kick to the gut Friday.
Conversations nursing home management should not have via emails
By
Howard Kurman
Jun 09, 2014
There have been countless nursing home managers, supervisors, and even HR executives, who have committed impolitic comments about employees in email messages. Those comments often become evidence in cases...
Deal cut by Senate Republicans likely to cause labor pains
By
John O'Connor
Jul 22, 2013
For many long-term care operators, labor relations might soon get even more challenging. And Senate Republicans are to blame, er, thank.
Unions scowl, employers beam. Just what do employees need to know?
By
James M. Berklan
May 08, 2013
First of all, to all the pro-union and pro-management types: Thanks for reading. Too bad only one of you can be happy after Tuesday’s federal appeals court ruling that tossed a National Labor Relations...
A toxic nursing home strike that gets weirder by the day
By
John O'Connor
Feb 11, 2013
The late Hunter S. Thompson famously said that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. By his logic, the management and workers involved in a strike across five HealthBridge Management facilities...
Yes, it was a good year
By
John O'Connor
Dec 22, 2011
If you’re like most operators, you’re probably staggering toward the end-of-year holidays. And your unsteady gait may have nothing to do with spiked eggnog.
NLRB offers guidance on social media policies and practices for nursing homes
By
Michael Pepperman, Esq.
Nov 22, 2011
The National Labor Relation Board’s Acting General Counsel has released a report summarizing a number of recent NLRB decisions involving employers’ restrictions on employee use of social media....
Paris Hilton, supermarket tabloids … and the National Labor Relations Board
By
Woodruff Imberman
Oct 11, 2011
As we predicted in “Labor Pains: Craig Becker’s Troubling Prescription for Long-Term Care Facilities,” in a January 2011 posting at mcknights.com, the National Labor Relations Board is...