| kaiserfraud ( @ 2007-01-13 11:23:00 |
| Entry tags: | kaiser permanente, kaiser workers |
Kaiser Blackballs Nurse for Helping Investigators
A nurse is suing Kaiser for denying her job assignments after she gave truthful testimony about patient dumping to prosecutors. It's difficult to find a lawyer who will take cases like this, so in all likelihood her case is pretty strong.
There's an easy way for Kaiser to become an organization that's better, stronger, and more serviceable to the public: stop retaliating against employees. All the droning on about "corporate culture" and "business ethics" and HR policies that promise no retaliation means NOTHING as long as Kaiser continues to in fact to retaliate. I would even argue that the very noticeable gap between Kaiser's PR-crafted messages and actions heightens the sense that employees are working in an environment where fraud is permitted, and even subtly encouraged.
Also, someone who lost their job at KPIT under dubious circumstances has been posting comments about their campaign to raise awareness of corrupt HR procedures. I hope this person will contact me with more details about the situation. If KPIT workers really are banding together to sue over how they were treated during the tumultuous HealthConnect re-org, then I want to be the first to wish them luck and offer my support.