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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in July 1935 to govern the labor–management relations of business firms engaged in interstate commerce. Examples of violating the NLRA are unfair labor practices. All health care establishments are prohibited from engaging in any events or matters that the NLRA considers to be associated with employer unfair labor practices (Pozgar, p 475). Under the NLRA guidelines all employers must negotiate in good faith with the employees or their representatives. Examples of employer unfair labor practices are: the employer tries to control, discriminate, dominate or interferes with the union or its members, employer supports a competitive union thus giving it access to the hospital facility but not …show more content…

Steven and Mora (2012) mentions that hospitals violated NLRA by allowing hospital ribbons to be worn during work hours and certain types of union ribbons also but not the ones that were similar to the hospital issued ones. Examples of union’s unfair labor practices are: Coercion or intimidating the employees, assaulting non-striking employees, the union breaching a collective bargaining contract and holding mass picketing/striking, (Pozgar, p 475). Another major violation of the NLRA is seen in the workplace such as the unlawful unilateral changes to the working conditions and subcontracting replacement hospital workers without bargaining with the union according to Susan R. Heylman (2012). Puerto Rico’s Hospital San Cristobal is an example of receiving many violations for work rule violation which prohibits the employees from conversing on issues related to subcontracted work performed by hospital departments, reducing the number of paid holidays without bargaining with employees …show more content…

First should be if whether or not you should terminate the employee by reviewing employee’s personnel files, look at any write-ups, warnings, etc. to establish if termination is warranted or supports the firing of the employee. If termination is imminent it should be in the business best interest but if decides not to terminate consider legal ramifications for not terminating the employee (poor work due to disability, sexual harassment, threatening or violent staff). All termination risks or legal issues should be reviewed as well as the reassigning of that employee’s job duties (Green, Ryan & Levy, n. d.). Lastly the supervisor should be ready to answer the employees questions concerning any severance pay, benefits and other company positions to name a

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