They over hired over the past year, luring people from great jobs to then send them off like yesterday's trash. Shame on you Humana!
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Sadly a lot of large companies lure in nurses and other health professionals to beef up some part of their organization and then lay off. They do this where there is a major problem they need fixed right away. I have seen it done in the hospitals where they would be fined millions of dollars for uncorrected issues. It is cheaper for them to wine and dine nurses, onboard them fast, use them to fix the issue and then let them go when they pass inspection or audit or whatever the issue is. You have to be aware of the red flags of any health care organization. Are they mass hiring? Can they never staff certain departments? It is done a lot in Florida. Florida is a right to work state and a company can lay you off for no reason at all and face no consequences. The ONLY way nurses will stop being abused is to form a national nurses union. The bulk of staffing hours in the hospitals are nurses and they are being worked to death. In any salaried position nurses are worked to death and only being paid 40 hours. I have never spoken to another nurse in a salary position where they only work 40 hours. Most work 50+ hours, and I know some former supervisors who work 80+ hours every week including weekends. If you average out their salary at an "hourly" wage, working 50 hours a week means a nurse works 40 hours at straight pay and should get time and an half for the rest of the hours worked. Averaging it out, nurses are paid as low as $10 dollars an hour. Walmart pays their staff better than this. This isn't just Humana or in one specific state.
There are 3.4 million nurses in the United States and the only way to demand better wages, better working conditions, security in our jobs, better benefits, and less bullying is to unite together. Things WILL GET WORSE as health care changes in the United States. A national nurses union is the only way to ensure we are not used and abused like trash. You should be able to go to your state board of nursing website and learn how to begin this movement. It won't help at this point, but it can make a difference in the long run.
Oh, the Human-a-ty...
They don't care about people. They don't care about our families. All they care about is money. They are working us to the bone. No work life balance at all.