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I signed a contract and now...

I work in a PACU...we are a Monday to Friday staffed department but are covered on Weekends by on call staff...the managers decided we would have to start covering Saturday day shift...they asked for volunteers and myself and 2 other nurses volunteered, we were asked to sign a contract for 6 months that we would work 3 Saturday 12 hour shifts in a 6 week schedule...no problem until today...our contracts run out soon and last week we were told they would be hiring a weekender so our new contracts that we signed last week for 6 more months would be for 2 Saturdays in 6 weeks...today we were told that they had decided that they only want the contracts to be for 3 months and that in addition to the Saturdays we will also be required to work a 12 hour shift on a Sunday!!! And to top it off, they told us we would no longer get shift differental on Saturdays because they feel we are sucking their budget dry!!! And that the contracts we already signed would cover all this!!! So what do you all think of this...doesn't sound kosher to me and I am considering going to our administrator over it...:banghead:

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a contract has to be legally binding on both parties,

talk with whomever it takes to straighen this out

Wow. Why do they think anyone would volunteer to work on a Saturday without a shift diff?! Yes I'd talk to admin about these changes in the contract.

Do you have a copy of that contract? Reread it. Surely it is more specific in its content than the hospital can do whatever it wants and you have to go along with it. Sounds like the hospital wants out of the contract. If thats what they want then they have to present a new contract. I'm no lawyer but I would pay for a legal opinion then maybe have the lawyer present my case to administration.

I would go to HR first, then the CNO then Risk Mgmt and then my own atty. depending on how much you want to stay there.

Another argument for unionizing hospitals. The hospital could not unilaterally change terms and conditions of employment if you were proteccted by a collective bargaining agreement.

Another argument for unionizing hospitals. The hospital could not unilaterally change terms and conditions of employment if you were proteccted by a collective bargaining agreement.

I have to agree...in spite of our problems, I am glad that I have a union.

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