HEALTH CARE
Docs Weigh In: Workloads are Unsafe (JAMA abstract only) For resident physicians, workload so heavy as to result in physician fatigue is associated with increased medical errors and has led to the implementation of work-hour restrictions.2– 3 For nurses, a recent cross-sectional analysis showed a significant association between patient mortality and low staffing.4 Fourteen states have enacted legislation and/or adopted regulations to address nurse staffing.5
LABOR UPDATES
Ford UAW Workers Receive $8,300 Profit Payout UAW members have not had a wage increase in at least eight years, relying on lump-sum payments and profit sharing for between 20% and 25% of their annual pay, Dziczek said. By contrast, 30 years ago the UAW typically negotiated three-year contracts with 3% wage hikes each year. Workers prefer compound wage increases to lump payments.
W-2s Will Offer Health Care Tracking Info The disclosures, required by the 2010 health care law, are meant to make workers more cost-conscious. Health benefits are still tax-free. But labor unions and employer groups say it could be easier to tax them in the future, now that employers must report their value to the government.
Which is It? To fight organizing drive, hospital system that boasted being PA’s biggest employr, now says it has no employees.