Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, NLRB NEWS—Healthcare employer under order to reinstate employee, restore annual wage increases, bargain with union, (Jan 6, 2025)

By Brandi O. Brown, J.D.

The injunction affects over 200 employees at 11 separate facilities.

According to the NLRB, which petitioned a federal court in California for temporary injunctive relief pending a final decision by the Board on an administrative complaint, that court issued an injunction order in December that requires Satellite Healthcare, Inc. to reinstate an employee, restore its established practice of annual wage increases, bargain with SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, rescind all unilateral changes to employees’ terms and conditions of employment, and post, text, and read aloud a Board notice to all employees.

In the underlying administrative proceeding, it has been alleged that the employer engaged in unlawful activity, including discharging an employee for engaging in protected activity, failing and refusing to bargain with the union, unilaterally changing the employees’ terms and conditions of employment including rescinding annual wage increases, and making threats against engaging in union activity.

The remedy impacts over 200 employees at 11 facilities that provide dialysis treatment options and kidney transplant support.

“We are thrilled with this outcome,” said Region 20-San Francisco Regional Director Jill H. Coffman. “This injunction is a critical step in protecting employee rights to organize and ensuring employers follow the law when their employees decide to select a union as their bargaining representative. This ruling will restore the Union to the position it would have been in the absence of Satellite’s unlawful conduct, prevent irreparable harm to the bargaining process, and protect the public interest in enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act.

Companies: Satellite Healthcare, Inc.

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