Can Hospitals be sued if they breach their own contracts????

[RNPal]

:angryfire Hello! Just want to know your opinion if a nurse who was sponsored and was able to obtain a green card thru an employment based petition walk out of his contract and leave that employer/facility and not pay a single centavo if that facility breaches their own contracts??? Here's what happened....

first employer promised a housing for each individual or family and even required to list down all the names and ages only to find out upon arrival at the jobsite that 3 families will be housed in a 2 bedroom apartment and even drawing lots who gets to sleep on the living room.

Nurses signing a 2 year contract only to be told once Visas were given by the embassy that it was now changed and that they have to sign a 3 year contract and even threatening these nurses that you have no choice but sign this since your visas will expire 6 months if we do not deploy you.

The offered 12th dollars sign on bonus was now reduced to 6th dollars.

and spread now to the 3 years contract.

Nurse to patient ratio was deliberately kept from the nurses only to realize that 15 patients would be their minimium for the day and if census goes down to 12 one of the nurses will be asked to leave at any

time.

PTO would be utilized to pay off the cancellations. thereby these nurses would have no more paid vacation leaves if ever they decide to use it for their own vacation leaves.

Nurses were not matched to what their working experiences were and thereby makng it difficult for adjustment by these nurses.

Don't you think these nurses deserve better treatment and that doesn;t give the hospital right to abuse them in exchange for that green card???.

Can the hospital sue these nurses for resigning and not coming back to work breaching their contracts or is it the other way around???

Lawyers were consulted and up to now cannot determine whether it is a labor case or an immigration case.

Nurses who have been in the same predicament Please help!!! thanks in advance.

[philRN2006]

hi ! could you PM me that Employer/Agency. I should put that on my watch list. I think If you had a written contract and it was violated you can sue them/ the Agency and even the hospital. By the way are they hired by the hospital or an agency?

[suzanne4, RN]

Did you sign with an agency or as a direct hire of a facility? Sounds more like an agency by just reading what you wrote.

Please send me the name of the agency in a pm, do not post it here, and then I will tell you what your next steps are.