Are health care employers required to post a notice relating to the mandatory overtime restrictions?
Yes. Health care employers are required to make their Nurse Coverage Plan readily available to all nursing staff through conspicuously posting the Plan in a physical location accessible to nursing staff, or through other means that will ensure availability to nursing staff, e.g. electronic posting on the employer’s internal web site. The Plan must also be provided to any collective bargaining representative representing nurses at the health care facility, and to the Commissioner of Labor, or his or her designee, upon request. |top| Q: When can a health care employer require nurses to work overtime? A: Mandated overtime is allowable in response to the following limited circumstances: A patient care emergency, as determined by the health care employer, and used only as a last resort after the Nurse Coverage Plan has been implemented; A federal, state, or county declaration of emergency in the county or a contiguous county in which the nurse is employed; A health care disaster as reasonab
