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Following the Doctor’s Orders: NLRB Decision Prescribes Union Election for Physicians

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In Piedmont Health Services, Inc. and Piedmont Health Services Medical Providers United, Case No. 10-RC-286648, Region 10 of the National Labor Relations Board (Region) issued a Decision and Direction of Election (DDE) in...more

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Physician not a Hospital “Employee” for Purpose of Title VII Action

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On May 8, 2019, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its test to determine whether a worker qualifies as an “employee” as defined by and subject to Title VII protections. ...more

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Healthcare Client Alert: California Supreme Court's Dynamex Decision Alters Independent Contractor Landscape

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On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court, No. S222732, in which the Court chose to essentially scrap the nearly 30-year old test for determining...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Healthcare Industry Companies Must Be Wary of Classifying Any Workers As Independent Contractors, In Light of the California...

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As you may have seen in our recent article on the Labor and Employment Law Blog, the California Supreme Court recently issued a landmark decision in the case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court. In its ruling,...more

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Independent Medical Staff Denied Title VII Protection

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It has not been unusual for employed physicians to seek the protection provided to independent medical staff members through the due process procedures provided by medical staff by-laws. The case of Levitin and Chicago...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Employee, Worker or Self-Employed?

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In Suhail v Barking Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust UKEAT/0536/13/RN, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether a doctor who provided his services to a health care trust through a co-operative was an employee, a...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Doctors and Lawyers and Such

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When doctors and lawyers get sideways with their business partners, they might dispute whether one or more of them are really “employees.” In a recent case, an anesthesiologist alleged disability and sex discrimination. To...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Take 5 Newsletter: Five Labor and Employment Issues Faced by Health Care Employers

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As the Affordable Care Act and the challenges of reimbursement and funding for health care services drive changes in the health care delivery system and employment in the industry, new issues in labor and employment law are...more

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NLRB Rules Hospital's Resident Physicians Are Employees and Can Unionize

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Whether an individual is an “employee” entitled to all the protections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), or a “student” who has no such rights, has been a recurring and hotly contested issue before the National...more

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