crowinghen
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA
My employer just posted that all the employees in my department will have to re-bid for their positions. I work for a hospital in the CT department, and we are opening a new scanner in a few months, alond with a new ER department.
My question is this: the new shifts posted will change many people's hours from full-time to . 9 or .8 positions. Insurance benefits for families are provided for any employee at a .9 or above, so potentially there are employees that could lose health insurance benefits for their families.
Also they are eliinating a mutually agreed-upon innovative shift of the week-end people working 2-16 hour shifts and receiving pay and benefits as if they worked 40 hours. The shift now is 3-12 hour shifts, paid at the normal rate of pay .
The language in our Union contract states only that in a re-bid situation, the employer has to notify the Union of a re-bid. and that's about all it says.
I've been looking this up a little, and from what I can see the Employer does have a right to re-bid positions, but the impact of a re-bid upon hours and pay is negotiable. It also seems like the " re-bid" is just a way to get rid of a shift that benefits the employee, and they couod in fact adjust for the increaded volume of patients by just increasing staffing, instead of doing a re-bid.
( on a side note, they are giving each employee just two minutes to choose their new shift in order of seniority)
any thoughts? Is this legal? Do we employes have any recpurse? I've called my Union, but honestly they are pretty lame, so I don';t expect alot from them.
thank you for any help@@
What are our rights?
My employer just posted that all the employees in my department will have to re-bid for their positions. I work for a hospital in the CT department, and we are opening a new scanner in a few months, alond with a new ER department.
My question is this: the new shifts posted will change many people's hours from full-time to . 9 or .8 positions. Insurance benefits for families are provided for any employee at a .9 or above, so potentially there are employees that could lose health insurance benefits for their families.
Also they are eliinating a mutually agreed-upon innovative shift of the week-end people working 2-16 hour shifts and receiving pay and benefits as if they worked 40 hours. The shift now is 3-12 hour shifts, paid at the normal rate of pay .
The language in our Union contract states only that in a re-bid situation, the employer has to notify the Union of a re-bid. and that's about all it says.
I've been looking this up a little, and from what I can see the Employer does have a right to re-bid positions, but the impact of a re-bid upon hours and pay is negotiable. It also seems like the " re-bid" is just a way to get rid of a shift that benefits the employee, and they couod in fact adjust for the increaded volume of patients by just increasing staffing, instead of doing a re-bid.
( on a side note, they are giving each employee just two minutes to choose their new shift in order of seniority)
any thoughts? Is this legal? Do we employes have any recpurse? I've called my Union, but honestly they are pretty lame, so I don';t expect alot from them.
thank you for any help@@
What are our rights?
