https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/thedacare-files-lawsuit-to-keep-employees-from-leaving-for-ascension/
NEENAH, Wis. (WFRV) – ThedaCare is trying to get a court order to temporarily keep some of its employees from leaving to Ascension, after Ascension hired a ‘majority’ of its 11-member interventional radiology and cardiovascular team.
ThedaCare announced that they have filed for a temporary injunction in Outagamie County Circuit Court against Ascension Wisconsin.
Note: “against Ascension” - the suit has not been filed against the employees, but against a competing hospital which hired most of the employees in one unit, all at the same time.
Continuing…
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We understand and respect that people have choices in the current highly competitive job market. The decision by Ascension Wisconsin to hire away such a significant portion of ThedaCare’s interventional radiology specialty support team all at once, and at the height of a pandemic surge, will disrupt access to critical care for the people in our region.”
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The other hospital claims:
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Contrary to the allegations in the ThedaCare lawsuit, Ascension Wisconsin did not initiate the recruitment of the ThedaCare employees. Rather, the employees applied for open job postings. ”
The judge, after hearing arguments from both of them, was apparently not inclined to believe that most of the employees in a single unit all just happened to apply at Ascension at the same time.
But, for whatever reason, this dispute is being mischaracterizes here and on other social media (where I had seen it earlier) as the hospital going after the employees. They aren’t suing the employees. They are claiming that the other hospital engaged in a recruiting operation designed to kneecap a competitor. Whether or not that happened is yet to be seen, but the court apparently thought there was enough to it to order the parties to work something out.
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