Comments on: NLRB: employer policy may not prohibit negativity and gossip

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:22:31 +0000

I see a different problem with the hospital’s policy, namely that it is damaging to the safety of patients. Under the policy, an employee could be disciplined for commenting on such things as a surgeon’s high rate of complications or a nurses’s failure to wash her hands. Such comments may constitute gossip and lead to negativity, but they are essential if errors and substandard practices are to be minimized.

By: Jason Wong

Jason Wong — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:05:21 +0000

No negative comments about our fellow team members in a hospital?

So, if someone makes a dumb mistake and injures a patient, you can’t comment about that? No reprimands?

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:03:39 +0000

So sexist and racist language is simultaneously prohibited and protected?

We’ve broken right through “Everything that is not compulsory is forbidden” and come out on the other side.

Bob