LPNs: Avoiding Unfair Labor Practices & Ensuring Employee Rights

1. Interfering with union activity: LPNs should not interfere with the rights of employees to form and join unions, or to engage in union activities. This includes:

- Threatening or coercing employees to join or not join a union

- Discriminating against employees for their union membership or activity

- Refusing to bargain in good faith with a union

2. Discriminating against employees: LPNs should not discriminate against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other protected characteristic. This includes:

- Refusing to hire someone because of their protected characteristic

- Firing someone because of their protected characteristic

- Harassing someone because of their protected characteristic

3. Spying on employees: LPNs should not spy on employees or engage in other surveillance activities that are designed to intimidate or harass employees. This includes:

- Monitoring employee conversations or emails

- Following employees around

- Using hidden cameras or recording devices to record employee activity

4. Retaliating against employees: LPNs should not retaliate against employees who exercise their legal rights, such as the right to complain about unfair labor practices or to file a lawsuit against an employer. This includes:

- Firing employees for complaining about unfair labor practices

- Demoting employees for filing a lawsuit

- Refusing to promote employees who have exercised their legal rights