- Jurisdiction
- California
I and 3 of my co-workers were downgraded from full time to part time when administration decided to cut us from 2 respiratory therapists to 1 per shift. Fast-forward 2 years and they have put us back to 2 per shift, however they have declined to reinstate the 4 part-timers to full-time status because as the administrator stated, they did not want to pay the benefits for full-time employees. The issue is that recently, the Director of Nursing made one of the therapists that was hired 3 or 4 months ago full-time. There was no mention of a full-time position being added. There was no open posting. No one approached any of us who had previously been full-time to offer us our position back. Today i learned that another new hire had also been made full-time, same situation as before. I did not mention that the 2 employees who had been made full-time are close friends with the dept lead. Is this legal? I would like to know if there is any thing i can do about this situation. I would greatly appreciate a response with some useful info.