Dear CRONA Nurses at SHC,

We are very pleased to inform you that an impartial arbitrator agreed with CRONA that final written warnings at SHC have to be removed from nurses’ nursing unit and HR personnel files 12 months from the date of issue, unless the nurse engages in similar or related misconduct within the 12-month period. The arbitrator ruled in our favor.

SHC had refused to remove “final” written warnings from nurses’ files. SHC insisted that its own corrective action policy requires that final written warnings be kept in nurses’ files permanently. The arbitrator agreed with us that the SHC CRONA contract requires that all types of written warnings, final or otherwise, be removed from a nurse’s files after 12 months.

CRONA believes that holding a final written warning permanently over a nurse’s head for the rest of his/her employment at SHC would be unfair.

We all strive to do our jobs to the best of our ability. Any one of us can make a mistake. Because of this arbitration victory, every nurse at SHC who receives a final written warning will have the opportunity to wipe the slate clean after 12 months.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,
Lorie Johnson
President
On behalf of the CRONA Executive Board