Beverly Announces Plans to Appeal Ruling
by October 1, 2001 12:00 am 64 views
Beverly Enterprises Inc. of Fort Smith told the Associated Press that it will appeal a National Labor Relations Board ruling that the chain illegally laid off hundreds of employees following a 1996 strike in Pennsylvania.
Beverly spokesman Dan Springer said the company had no estimate of how much back pay it would owe if the judge upholds the labor board’s ruling.
In April 1996, Beverly fired about 350 of the 1,200 workers who staged a three-day strike after working without a contract for five months. They left jobs at 15 nursing homes in western Pennsylvania.
The workers had accused the company of unfair labor practices. A federal judge in April 1997 ordered the company to rehire all of them.