HR

About 1,300 nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center who are members of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United are set to begin a four-day strike Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Striking nurses at Allina Health are questioning the organization's spending, including the Minneapolis-based system's $108 million investment in medical data company Health Catalyst, according to a Star Tribune report.

Talks between Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and the union that represents 3,300 nurses there are at a standstill, according to an editorial in The Boston Globe.

Workers at Santa Rosa (Calif.) Memorial and Petaluma (Calif.) Valley hospitals have approved a tentative agreement with management, The Press Democrat reports.

Over the past two years, a widening gap of unfilled jobs in healthcare has left providers scouring for quality clinical professionals to staff their facilities.

Employers are increasingly using benefits packages to attract employees, particularly when they may not be able to match competitors' salaries, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.

In the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workplace harassment was an actionable form of discrimination, harassment persists in American workplaces, according to a report from an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission task force dedicated to studying workplace…

Minneapolis-based Allina Health and nurses are at odds over whether patients are getting the care they need with 4,800 nurses on strike and 1,400 replacement nurses filling in, according to a Pioneer Press report.

Nurses at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., are alleging that a recent "boot camp" training was punitive and humiliating, The Herald-News reports.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health has reached a tentative agreement with three unions.