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...
Union avoidance – press the ‘Easy’ button
By
Tom Zigray
Mar 08, 2011
Unions now represent less than 7% of the private industry workforce in the United States. It is imperative that unions take immediate action to rebuild their membership. That is exactly what unions are...
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...
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...
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....
Labor pains: Craig Becker’s troubling prescription for long-term care facilities
By
Lane W. Imberman
Jan 19, 2011
Administrators at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are awakening to the fact that while unions lost their battle in Congress for the Employee Free Choice Act—the “card-check”...