Hires Lawyer at $800.00/Hour To Fight Its Own Employees
The manager of Northern Health (NH) in Prince Rupert did not like one of her maintenance employees and so she decided to fire them all. It is estimated that NH will spend over $2,000,000.00 of our tax dollars in this attempt. There were five employees and she will spend about $400,000.00 on each employee in her attempt to prove to these employees and their union that she has the power to fire them.
Several hundred thousand dollars were spent to make unneeded changes to the hospital hot water boilers and laundry facilities in order to justify terminating these employees. NH now uses three times more bleach to clean the laundry because they shut down one hot water boiler. We don’t understand how all this bleach can be good for the patients of the Hospital or the residents in Acropolis Manor or for the staff who work in Laundry.
The union representing these employees has objected to her actions and went to the BC Labour Board. The NH Board of Directors has given tactic approval to defend this manager and allowed her to hire the most expensive lawyer in BC to represent her and NH. It is reported he charges $800.00 / hour for his services.
The hearings at the Labour Board in Vancouver have been going on for several months now and look to go on for at least another six months. We estimate each day of hearings costs NH over $20,000.00. There are legal fees (at $800.00/hr), the cost of flying at least three high priced NH managers in from Prince Rupert and Prince George, food, wine, high cost meals and expensive downtown Vancouver hotels. We hear a rumour that NH now wants to fly a witness in from Ottawa just to prove a point. All on your tax dollars.
Where is the reasonableness in what is happening? How does our government and the NH Board of Directors allow managers to run amok and spend millions of taxpayer’s dollars just because they don’t like an employee?
The government says they don’t have enough money to give their health care workers a modest raise. They would have the money if they made their hospital managers and board directors more responsible for where money is spent. We want all of the hard working employees in Prince Rupert, who will get no raise this year, to say thanks to the 4th floor manager who is spending their raise on legal fees and trips to Vancouver.
We wish NH would spend our hard-earned tax dollars on treating sick people and giving their employees a decent wage rather than supporting a manager’s personal vendetta against some employees she does not like.
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Hires Lawyer at $800.00/Hour To Fight Its Own Employees
The manager of Northern Health (NH) in Prince Rupert did not like one of her maintenance employees and so she decided to fire them all. It is estimated that NH will spend over $2,000,000.00 of our tax dollars in this attempt. There were five employees and she will spend about $400,000.00 on each employee in her attempt to prove to these employees and their union that she has the power to fire them.
Several hundred thousand dollars were spent to make unneeded changes to the hospital hot water boilers and laundry facilities in order to justify terminating these employees. NH now uses three times more bleach to clean the laundry because they shut down one hot water boiler. We don’t understand how all this bleach can be good for the patients of the Hospital or the residents in Acropolis Manor or for the staff who work in Laundry.
The union representing these employees has objected to her actions and went to the BC Labour Board. The NH Board of Directors has given tactic approval to defend this manager and allowed her to hire the most expensive lawyer in BC to represent her and NH. It is reported he charges $800.00 / hour for his services.
The hearings at the Labour Board in Vancouver have been going on for several months now and look to go on for at least another six months. We estimate each day of hearings costs NH over $20,000.00. There are legal fees (at $800.00/hr), the cost of flying at least three high priced NH managers in from Prince Rupert and Prince George, food, wine, high cost meals and expensive downtown Vancouver hotels. We hear a rumour that NH now wants to fly a witness in from Ottawa just to prove a point. All on your tax dollars.
Where is the reasonableness in what is happening? How does our government and the NH Board of Directors allow managers to run amok and spend millions of taxpayer’s dollars just because they don’t like an employee?
The government says they don’t have enough money to give their health care workers a modest raise. They would have the money if they made their hospital managers and board directors more responsible for where money is spent. We want all of the hard working employees in Prince Rupert, who will get no raise this year, to say thanks to the 4th floor manager who is spending their raise on legal fees and trips to Vancouver.
We wish NH would spend our hard-earned tax dollars on treating sick people and giving their employees a decent wage rather than supporting a manager’s personal vendetta against some employees she does not like.
Next article: How NH Pollutes Our Local Waters – What’s In That Crab You’re Eating?
Hires Lawyer at $800.00/Hour To Fight Its Own Employees
The manager of Northern Health (NH) in Prince Rupert did not like one of her maintenance employees and so she decided to fire them all. It is estimated that NH will spend over $2,000,000.00 of our tax dollars in this attempt. There were five employees and she will spend about $400,000.00 on each employee in her attempt to prove to these employees and their union that she has the power to fire them.
Several hundred thousand dollars were spent to make unneeded changes to the hospital hot water boilers and laundry facilities in order to justify terminating these employees. NH now uses three times more bleach to clean the laundry because they shut down one hot water boiler. We don’t understand how all this bleach can be good for the patients of the Hospital or the residents in Acropolis Manor or for the staff who work in Laundry.
The union representing these employees has objected to her actions and went to the BC Labour Board. The NH Board of Directors has given tactic approval to defend this manager and allowed her to hire the most expensive lawyer in BC to represent her and NH. It is reported he charges $800.00 / hour for his services.
The hearings at the Labour Board in Vancouver have been going on for several months now and look to go on for at least another six months. We estimate each day of hearings costs NH over $20,000.00. There are legal fees (at $800.00/hr), the cost of flying at least three high priced NH managers in from Prince Rupert and Prince George, food, wine, high cost meals and expensive downtown Vancouver hotels. We hear a rumour that NH now wants to fly a witness in from Ottawa just to prove a point. All on your tax dollars.
Where is the reasonableness in what is happening? How does our government and the NH Board of Directors allow managers to run amok and spend millions of taxpayer’s dollars just because they don’t like an employee?
The government says they don’t have enough money to give their health care workers a modest raise. They would have the money if they made their hospital managers and board directors more responsible for where money is spent. We want all of the hard working employees in Prince Rupert, who will get no raise this year, to say thanks to the 4th floor manager who is spending their raise on legal fees and trips to Vancouver.
We wish NH would spend our hard-earned tax dollars on treating sick people and giving their employees a decent wage rather than supporting a manager’s personal vendetta against some employees she does not like.
Next article: How NH Pollutes Our Local Waters – What’s In That Crab You’re Eating?
Hires Lawyer at $800.00/Hour To Fight Its Own Employees
The manager of Northern Health (NH) in Prince Rupert did not like one of her maintenance employees and so she decided to fire them all. It is estimated that NH will spend over $2,000,000.00 of our tax dollars in this attempt. There were five employees and she will spend about $400,000.00 on each employee in her attempt to prove to these employees and their union that she has the power to fire them.
Several hundred thousand dollars were spent to make unneeded changes to the hospital hot water boilers and laundry facilities in order to justify terminating these employees. NH now uses three times more bleach to clean the laundry because they shut down one hot water boiler. We don’t understand how all this bleach can be good for the patients of the Hospital or the residents in Acropolis Manor or for the staff who work in Laundry.
The union representing these employees has objected to her actions and went to the BC Labour Board. The NH Board of Directors has given tactic approval to defend this manager and allowed her to hire the most expensive lawyer in BC to represent her and NH. It is reported he charges $800.00 / hour for his services.
The hearings at the Labour Board in Vancouver have been going on for several months now and look to go on for at least another six months. We estimate each day of hearings costs NH over $20,000.00. There are legal fees (at $800.00/hr), the cost of flying at least three high priced NH managers in from Prince Rupert and Prince George, food, wine, high cost meals and expensive downtown Vancouver hotels. We hear a rumour that NH now wants to fly a witness in from Ottawa just to prove a point. All on your tax dollars.
Where is the reasonableness in what is happening? How does our government and the NH Board of Directors allow managers to run amok and spend millions of taxpayer’s dollars just because they don’t like an employee?
The government says they don’t have enough money to give their health care workers a modest raise. They would have the money if they made their hospital managers and board directors more responsible for where money is spent. We want all of the hard working employees in Prince Rupert, who will get no raise this year, to say thanks to the 4th floor manager who is spending their raise on legal fees and trips to Vancouver.
We wish NH would spend our hard-earned tax dollars on treating sick people and giving their employees a decent wage rather than supporting a manager’s personal vendetta against some employees she does not like.
Next article: How NH Pollutes Our Local Waters – What’s In That Crab You’re Eating?
Doesn’t surprise me. NH has got way out of control. They’ve become overly self-righteous and egotistical. Especially with forbidding the practice of telling a mother what sex the baby is. I don’t care about different nationalities and not like ‘girl’ babies. After a certain point, if a mother wants to know the fucking sex Pienaar shouldn’t have to feel like a dissident for telling her what it is. It’s pregnancy, not a fucking government program you cunts. And this Canada, NOT China!
At one point an immunization nurse implied to my significant other that my significant other shouldn’t tell me that they went against my wishes with my child. Thankfully, as a couple we’re %200 on the same page and my significant other shot her down immediately (figuratively of course).
On the subject of its employees, people have to put their foot down and honestly, the people of this province need to work together with unions to crush this totalitarian way our government is run. Too much legislation is handed down to us without a say. This representation crap doesn’t work and the fucking crooks in our government keep getting away with murder.
[quote=“MeepMeepZoom”]Doesn’t surprise me. NH has got way out of control. They’ve become overly self-righteous and egotistical. Especially with forbidding the practice of telling a mother what sex the baby is. I don’t care about different nationalities and not like ‘girl’ babies. After a certain point, if a mother wants to know the fucking sex Pienaar shouldn’t have to feel like a dissident for telling her what it is. It’s pregnancy, not a fucking government program you cunts. And this Canada, NOT China!
At one point an immunization nurse implied to my significant other that my significant other shouldn’t tell me that they went against my wishes with my child. Thankfully, as a couple we’re %200 on the same page and my significant other shot her down immediately (figuratively of course).
On the subject of its employees, people have to put their foot down and honestly, the people of this province need to work together with unions to crush this totalitarian way our government is run. Too much legislation is handed down to us without a say. This representation crap doesn’t work and the fucking crooks in our government keep getting away with murder.[/quote]
They’re really going forward with this shit of refusing to disclose the sex of the baby? I mean sure its disgusting to terminate a baby because of its sex but umm its your body do what the fuck you want, take a knife and hack out your womb for all I care.
I don’t agree with it but well my opinion doesnt matter when it comes to shit that doesnt affect me, though I completely agree with a doctors right to refuse to do it in cases of gender selection.
This is as ridiculous as the plan to charge 50.00 to disclose the babies sex because that would somehow stop the people who pay thousands to 3d ultrasound clinics right?
Also clearly any culture that practices gender selection is full of closet gays.
/rant
BBL going to go knock up the wife to confirm this news for myself.
NH is going down the toilet faster than your money at the Casino! I have often wondered how this corporation can remodel office after office area repeatedly with no care or concern on costs … specifically at the Health Unit as an example. I have often said that Nh really only exsists in PG and every other area has to do as the “head” people in Pg tell them to. This case was one of them … I really thinkthat the Big bosses in Pg shoudl be made to answer for this specifcially not the person here who was doing as requested. Why is is there is no accountability with big budget issues ie renos etc … I mean n how many times do you redo an office … or take out walls to divide the Mental health side from the Public Health side, then put the wall back up?? Its is disgusting and yet there is “no more money” for health care. Some ( note not all) managers/supervisors that they hire are nut jobs and yet … rather than deal with the issue of this they bring in work coaches so we can all get a long. Give me a break … health care is broken and as good as the staff is at the hospital we are limitless and powerless thanks to the morons of the current government!( past governments as well) OCne the dust settles someone should ask for a freedom of information on this issue by the way just go to the Human Rights Tribunal and see how many cases there are listed against NH! Boggles my mind it does!!
Interesting chat, this. About the only good thing is that THAT manager isn’t going to cut costs and put the savings into her own pocket as a bonus. It would be nice, though if just like when savings don’t go back to health care, these costs wouldn’t come out of health care coffers.
It’s interesting how labour is being treated by NHA. From what I’ve heard, the maintenance workers were laid off because of the improvements, and then invited to reapply for their own jobs at a lower wage. The thinking, from what I can gather is that it was no longer necessary to have all the credentials to handle furnaces and boilers or whatever, and so skilled labour was no longer necessary. And that being the case, it was no longer necesssary to pay the higher wage. Don’t contracts stand for anything anymore?
Aside from this thinking, I believe that prior to this, the Maintenance personnel were given a time line to update their education or they would be terminated. Now they don’t need that education and not only don’t keep their jobs, they get terminated because the job can be done with less education (and less pay.)
With regards to the disclosing the sex of a baby, if the doctor is inaccurate in his/her interpretation they might leave the door opened to being sued, by parents who were told that they were going to have a girl and had a boy instead. With regards to the other items about the labor unrest, I would postulate that the job description was changed, and there was a need to repost for the job at an adjusted rate.
People are so hasty now days, and take everything for granted, the doctor telling you the sex of the baby, is doing this out of their own generosity, in no way are they required to guarantee.
The fact that people are so demanding now days and want to sue everyone, means that eventually nobody will do things out of generosity if you catch my drift !
mitbestimmung (German) - Participation of both Management and Union, getting together to determine what the ultimate goal of Northern Health should be. Effective delivery of service that would ensure that patients receive the care that would be expected. Having more workers, does not necessarily mean that better service would be provided, but at the same time cutting jobs to meet a budget, also does not mean that better service would be delivered.
A renewal of job descriptions are a fact of business, equipment changes and training requirements change.
Give me a break … health care is broken and as good as the staff is at the hospital we are limitless and powerless thanks to the morons of the current government!( past governments as well) OCne the dust settles someone should ask for a freedom of information on this issue by the way just go to the Human Rights Tribunal and see how many cases there are listed against NH! Boggles my mind it does!!