[brian]

...Nurses favor legislation banning mandatory overtime while hospitals are opposed to any law that ties their hands when it comes to staffing.

Mandatory overtime, the practice of forcing nurses and other health-care workers to work longer hours or extra shifts, is permissible in Pennsylvania. Two proposals are pending in the state General Assembly that would prohibit hospitals and other health-care facilities from mandating that nurses and some other health-care employees work overtime....

more: http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/9691005.htm

[cheerfuldoer]

No employee should be given the legal right to mandate anything in their employees lives. I wouldn't work anywhere that mandated overtime. Why give an employer that much power and control over your life as an employee in their facility. No way would I subject myself to such abuse of my American freedom.

[laughing weasel]

Has Pennsylvania heard that we have a new amendment that forbids slavery? They need to hire sufficient numbers of nurses to avoid the need for constant mandatory over time are we nurses responsible for our license or are we ignorant laborers relying on the management to decide what is safe effective and appropriate.

[wam79]

Mandatory OT is dangerous. I can think of no area in nursing that could be safe with overworked, overtired nurses. The safety of the people needing care must be defended. Especialy if healthcare managers will not do it.