Posted on 01/23/2022 12:45:54 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"Telling people they cannot quit for a better opportunity is blatantly unconstitutional. But that just happened in Wisconsin.
The Appleton, Wisconsin Post-Crescent reports Fox Valley Health Care Workers Now Playing Out in Court.
The seven workers quit ThedaCare, applied for positions at Ascension, and received job offers.
The seven did not have contracts or obligations at ThedaCare nor did Ascension recruit those workers.
Nonetheless, ThedaCare filed a lawsuit seeking to block the move.
Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Mark McGinnis granted ThedaCare's request and until at least Monday. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at mishtalk.com ...
Ascension likely won’t let them work while workers appeal, and I wouldn’t go back to ThedaCare who obviously think they are slaves or possibly indentured servants. The workers will win this case, the only question is how long that will take in the courts.
Jus primae noctis, anyone?
Regards,
Outrageous
The question is, why does a judge allow this sort of BS lawfare against these workers go on 15 minutes?
My uninformed guess is that the workers organized this in unison, including their ultimatum to match their offers or lose them all at once. Then, somewhere, somehow this is considered illegal in labor law? So then the judge told them they couldn’t accept the offers? They are thus not told that they can’t quit where they are, just that they can’t take advantage of their orchestrated action and accept these particular offers at the competing hospital?
Certainly this article is written so onesidedly as to not bother to provide the judge’s legal rationale. It is a case of being so slanted that it is not credible without explanation for the other side—and therefore unconvincing.
Next will be a ruling the “lord” will have the legal right to sleep with a betrothed young woman before her husband can do so.
We have boarded a time machine and are now back in the Dark Ages.
How can this be true especially in a such litigious setting? Medical workers like all other workers sign contracts before working. So, if this is the case, how did these seven work without contracts at the hospital "without contracts or obligations"?
No, something fishy is with this article. Something important is being deliberately left out as is the usual excrement that passes for journalism these days.
The process is the punishment.
I would counter sue for damages of lost wages.
It is a 90 day injunction to allow Thedacare time to replace the 7 workers going to Ascension. They are being allowed to go, just not all 7 in an instantaneous block out of the 11 workers.
I have no clue the legality of it. In my world, you give 2 weeks notice and quit. If 7 workers want to do that, they can. It sucks for Thedacare, but that’s life.
In any event, this is not as described by the article. It is a bald-face lie for the article to print “The judge ruled the workers cannot quit. Wow!”. That is a blatant lie. This is a temporary 90 injunction, not a preventative measure. They are free to go to Ascension after 90 days, whether or not Acension finds replacements, but this gives Ascension 3 months to try.
https://news.yahoo.com/thedacare-asks-court-temporarily-stop-233725232.html
Meant giving Thedacare 3 months to find new workers. You can’t tell the players withouot a scorecard...
I’m a medical worker and I don’t have a contract. In an “at will” employment arrangement either party can end the association at any time. That seems to be the case here.
A Love the Old USSR Judge ?
So right now Directive 10-289 is only “temporary.”
Just a “temporary” government order.
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There’s got to be more to this story. Why in the world would ThedaCare want them back.
Whatever unhappiness there was will spread like wildfire if they go back.
Why in the world would ThedaCare want them back.
Here's a thought to consider: ThedaCare has contract obligations of its own to customers. Could it be that the employees who were walking out the door would cause ThedaCare to come up short?
Wisconsin County Circuit Court Judge rules that health care workers are slaves.
I am not justifying or agreeing with the order. I don’t know if the order is legal or illegal. All I said was that the article lied or is being misleading about the claim that the people can’t quit. They can leave in 90 days. The article lied.
Seems to me that if a person quits a job, wants to work elsewhere for any reason & is hired, that should be end of story. A court or judge should not be involved unless there is breach of contract. Just my opinion, but this makes me glad I am not in the workforce anymore. Too many problems & being overpaid is not one of them.
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