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Suppose it’s a trauma center that requires a certain level of staffing to be certified and that once said staffing can’t be maintained the center loses certific
by syki 5y ago
Suppose it’s a trauma center that requires a certain level of staffing to be certified and that once said staffing can’t be maintained the center loses certification. Competitor decides to poach employees en masse to initiate decertification. Suppose furthermore that certification is a lengthy process.
- oneoff786 5y agoThat’s nonsense though. A single trauma center can’t hoard the entire labor supply of nurses. Raising healthcare prices due to market power for any reason is a problem regardless, and one that should be solved with regulation and market forces on the hospitals, not restricting nurses’ freedoms.
- syki 5y agoIt’s not that a given trauma center has all the entire supply it’s that it can’t find replacements quick enough if too many people are hired away too quickly.
- oneoff786 5y agoThen raise wages. And charge higher prices, which is fine in this imaginary world because your supposed only competitor is also raising wages. And then, in no time, it will become obvious to the hospitals that this stupid labor market war in which consumers lose and nurses win is dumb and it’ll normalize. And again, the regulatory tool to fix this kind of problem is not restricting nurse freedoms even if it did make sense
- syki 5y agoYou fail to grasp the issue at hand. If company A hires, all at once, so many key employees of company B that company B can’t replace the workers soon enough to avoid irreparable damage then company A might be engaging in anti-competitive behavior.
- oneoff786 5y agoThis is not a real thing. Nurses are far more fungible than key leaders and yet leaders are poachable. If they’re stealing nurses, then just raise wages. It’s that simple. How else are the nurses being stolen? Company B can poach nurses back immediately.