Posted on 01/22/2022 6:04:23 PM PST by Brookhaven
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.
In the complaint, lawyers for ThedaCare wrote that Ascension had "shockingly" chosen to "poach" the employees during a stressful time for health care. More COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in the Fox Valley now than at any other time during the pandemic, according to Wisconsin Hospital Association data, and ThedaCare has canceled non-emergency surgeries to make space.
ThedaCare-Neenah is a Level II Trauma Center, part of which means they have specialists like interventional radiologists available regularly to treat patients. Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital, a Level III Trauma Center, can provide initial support to trauma patients and is able to transfer them to ThedaCare-Neenah for more care, according to definitions from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Ascension says it did not recruit the workers and that ThedaCare had an opportunity to make counter-offers but didn't.
Timothy Breister, one of applicants in the dispute said the pay, the benefits, and the life-style options offered by Ascension were better.
Its "not just in pay but also a better work/life balance," said Breister.
After approaching ThedaCare with the chance to match the offers they'd been given, Breister wrote that they were told "the long term expense to ThedaCare was not worth the short term cost," and no counter-offer would be made.
You Can't Quit
It’s illegal to do something against government orders.
Judge be like, slaves don’t have rights.
Mark J. McGinnis is a judge for the Outagamie County Circuit Court, Branch 1, Wisconsin.[1][2] McGinnis won re-election without opposition in the general election on April 4, 2017.
Sounds kinda like the anti dog eat dog rule straight from Atlas Shrugged.
That’s not going to stand.
That judge must of gotten his degree from a pack of bubble
gum.
Ok, then when I don’t show up for work at my old job fire me. I dare you to find me in contempt of court for it.
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Wow. One of the employees posted the received letter on 4chan...but blacked out the names.
So it WAS true.
This has always been a risk of government involvement in health care—the courts may decide that health care workers are in fact government employees that can be treated like military recruits.
The vaccination requirements is one example of this that we have already seen.
The obvious problem is that future young people will not want to get into that field and of course a significant number of existing healthcare workers will leave or retire early.
Did the judge label his order ‘Directive 10-289’ ? It would seem appropriate.
granted ThedaCare’s request and until at least Monday. < Article was for nothing.
directive 10-289
How quaint
Slavery makes a comeback
US citizens work at the pleasure of the State, it seems.
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us” — coming soon to a workplace near you.
The judge will be over ruled if they appeal.
Courts have been cautious in this area even to the point of being careful when trying non compete cases.
the Blackrobe made SLAVES of these PEOPLE.
the Blackrobe had no right to make SLAVES of anyone.
the Blackrobe MUST BE IMPEACHED.
I think that’s one court order I would ignore.
How on earth are they going to enforce it?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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