A NewYork-Presbyterian hospital wrongfully fired an working room nurse over her involvement in union exercise, the New York department workplace of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board dominated Wednesday.
The NLRB discovered that NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital unlawfully discharged Rosamaria Tyo, a longtime registered nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Affiliation, for “affected person abandonment” as a result of she participated in union actions.
Tyo was fired after leaving a registered nurse she was mentoring alone within the working room for 28 minutes, whereas she and different union staff tried to persuade the location’s chief nursing officer to attend contract bargaining negotiations about advantage wages, the NLRB stated.
Tyo left a succesful nurse within the working room at a noncritical level within the surgical procedure, had knowledgeable that nurse of different nurses accessible to help and had left her cellphone quantity whereas she walked to a convention room two minutes away, the NLRB stated, making her departure not “egregious conduct,” as her employer claimed.
“Briefly, I’m not persuaded that Respondent would have discharged Tyo, a 17-year worker on the hospital, with a optimistic employment report, who was revered and relied on to function preceptor to mentor new nurses ’til the day she was terminated, had she not engaged in concerted exercise days earlier than her discharge. That timing, given the totality of the circumstances on this case, can’t be ignored,” the NLRB ruling learn.
The NLRB ordered NewYork-Presbyterian to reinstate Tyo to her place or the same one, to pay for any lack of earnings or advantages and to take away any information about her termination from its recordsdata.
NewYork-Presbyterian didn’t reply to requests for remark Friday.
