6th Circuit: No Bargaining Need For Nursing Home’s Pandemic Hiring, Pay Decisions

(September 3, 2024, 1:48 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A nursing home owner’s hiring and pay decisions in response to staffing shortages at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 were made due to exigent circumstances and did not require bargaining with the union representing two groups of employees, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, partially affirming and partially reversing a decision by the National Labor Relations Board....