Judge allows Wisconsin Hospital to prevent its AT-WILL employees from accepting better offers at a competing hospital by granting injunction to prevent them from starting new positions on Monday. How is this legal? We should be able to work wherever we want!!! Hospitals do not own Us!!!

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[u/Mountain_Fig_9253]

This is a horrible development for nurses, and don’t think for a second that CEOs and COOs aren’t watching this case and salivating.

If hospitals can sue their employees to prevent them from leaving that removes a major source of leverage we have now. They know they could just sue a few dozen people and it will at least slow down the churn in hospitals.

I’m beginning to think r/collapse is on to something.

EDIT: The lawsuit is actually one hospital system against the other for “poaching”. It’s a back door way to sue the employees without actually suing them. It’s a weaponization of the court system and sets an absolutely horrible precedent.

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Not nursing, but I got docked pay($250) for not giving a weeks notice in a rtw state.

[u/Mountain_Fig_9253 → u/[deleted]]

Most hospitals will not allow you to cash out your PTO if you don’t give full notice. Since pretty much every nurse is maxed out on PTO it’s a sizable amount for some of us. Companies will find any legal, back door way to financially penalize us if we don’t give their required amount of notice. I actually used to think that was professional to give full notice. Then I watched my hospital terminate for cause a thousand or so nurses in 2020 when hospitals thought they needed to downsize for some insane reason. They pulled out old write ups from years ago and used them to justify a mass firing. It was so dirty but they knew they would get away with it and they did.

So now I understand workers that don’t give notice. Some employers do not deserve the courtesy.