Pennsylvania’s public schools should be the safest and healthiest places for students to learn and grow. To make sure they are, we need the most qualified teachers, teaching assistants, school nurses, counselors, psychologists, and social workers.
HealthCare-PSEA wants to get the word out to colleagues who work in non-unionized health care facilities about the value of belonging to a union.
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HealthCare-PSEA takes care of nurses and lab techs, so you can take care of your patients. As demands on health care professionals increase, you need union support more than ever. You need HealthCare-PSEA.
#DYK: HealthCare-PSEA members are also members of AFT Healthcare.
Learn more at https://www.aft.org/healthcare.
All interested HealthCare-PSEA members are welcome to attend these meetings and events.
March 24, 2021 - 10 a.m. - Johnstown Office
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 2 p.m. - Gettysburg Hotel
Since 2009, Pennsylvania healthcare workers have been protected from working mandatory overtime beyond their regular, agreed-upon work hours. Act 102, enforced by the PA Dept. of Labor & Industry, prohibits employers mandating overtime for workers who engage in direct patient care in healthcare facilities, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, among others.
Employees may choose to work available overtime beyond their regularly scheduled shift, and Act 102 protects them from retaliation for refusing to work additional hours. On-call hours cannot be used as a substitute for mandatory overtime, and there are limited exceptions for unforeseen, emergent circumstances. Physicians, physicians assistants, dentists, and service workers not engaged in patient care are not covered by the overtime protections of Act 102.