Becker's Healthcare April 25, 2024
Contract provisions that stick nurses with the cost of training programs if they leave or are terminated before their contracts are up will largely be prohibited under the Federal Trade Commission’s April 23 ruling to ban noncompete agreements — a decision National Nurses United is applauding.
“We know that [training repayment agreement provisions] and other stay-or-pay contracts exploit vulnerable new graduate nurses at the very start of their careers,” Nancy Hagans, RN, NNU president, said in an April 24 statement. “We see the chilling effects these contracts have on nurses’ ability to advocate on behalf of their patients when they face harassment, termination and potentially ruinous financial consequences for speaking out about unsafe conditions that affect patient care. We commend...
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