A major New York City hospital illegally changed its dress code policy without first bargaining with its union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled. <\/p>\n
New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital failed to show the uniform requirement wasn\u2019t a \u201cmandatory, substantial, or significant\u201d change to workers\u2019 employment terms and conditions,Administrative Law Judge Michael P. Silverstein said in a Thursday opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n It therefore violated federal labor law by making the change without negotiating with the New York State Nurses Association, he wrote.<\/p>\n The hospital implemented the dress code change \u2014 which included mandatory navy blue pants and white tops for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major New York City hospital illegally changed its dress code policy without first bargaining with its union,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120926,120925,60602,1948,9,56,63,65,64,3545,21706],"class_list":["post-320803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bargaining-duty","tag-discipline-of-employee","tag-dress-code","tag-hospitals","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-unfair-labor-practices","tag-variable-interest-entities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}