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K B Stickler

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PubMed1993

Employee participation programs after electromation: they're worth the risk!

Employee participation programs (¿EPP¿s) can be an invaluable means of utilizing employee input, particularly in the healthcare industry. However, the National Labor Relation Board's (¿NLRB¿) recent decision in Electromation, Inc. affects the structure and use of EPPs. There are still ways in which EPPs can be structured to meet the NLRB's requirements.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
PubMed1991

Preparing for increased union organizing. A commitment to deal justly with employees is the best response to the new bargaining unit rules.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld a National Labor Relations Board regulation giving unions of healthcare workers the right to organize as many as eight different kinds of hospital bargaining units. With the Court's decision, hospital administrators must prepare for increased union organizing by maintaining policies that evidence the institution's commitment to social justice in the workplace. Hospital administrators can reduce the potential for labor-management conflict by stressing the institution's commitment to social justice and establishing programs to educate managers and other employees about Catholic teaching on social justice. Facility administrators should also establish a written philosophy statement outlining the institution's position on unionization, institute labor relations training, survey employees' opinions of management and their work environment, conduct audits of managers' perceptions of the organization's effectiveness, and periodically review the state of labor relations in the organization.

Catholicism↗
PubMed1990

Union organizing will be divisive and costly.

It is time for hospital executives to face up to the practical implications of increased union organizing, says attorney K. Bruce Stickler. Get ready for special-interest negotiations, increased job protection demands, escalating wage and benefits costs, and more.

Collective Bargaining↗
PubMed1987

Doctors and unions: is collective bargaining the cure for physicians' labor pains?

Increasing governmental regulation, the proliferation of alternative health-care options, and a glut of physicians in some areas have substantially affected the way physicians practice medicine today. Health-care consumers are not the only people affected. Where physicians were once their own bosses, many now find themselves as employers of health-care providers. In this new role, physicians are now considering union representation as a vehicle to assert their interests and concerns. This article examines why some doctors favor unionization, why some oppose it, and the legal implications of unionized physicians.

Employment↗
PubMed1983

Limitations on an employer's right to discipline and discharge employees.

An employer's prerogative to discipline and discharge its employees has been substantially infringed by the courts, state legislatures, Congress, and governmental agencies. In its recent Materials Research decision, the National Labor Relations Board has expanded the Weingarten principle by limiting the employer's ability to conduct investigatory and disciplinary interviews of nonunion employees. In addition, state courts and legislatures have begun to scrutinize the grounds for an employer's discharge of an employee, and Congress has statutorily prohibited the discipline or discharge of employees who "blow the whistle" on their employers under certain circumstances. This article will evaluate recent developments in this area of law and explore their impact on an employer's right to discipline and discharge its employees.

Employee Discipline↗