Update and stay tuned.(2 pending National Labor Relations Board rulings on nurses as supervisors)(The Law At Work) From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: July 1, 1995| Author: DiCesare, Constance B. | COPYRIGHT 1995 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The 1994 major US Supreme Court ruling that nurses who supervise lesser-skilled workers are supervisors not covered under labor law, NLRB v. Health Care and Retirement Corp., may affect two pending NLRB cases. The cases, from AK and NY, may have a widespread effect on many firms where team-based structures blur supervisor-worker labels.

The Supreme Court issued a major labor decision last year when it ruled, in NLRB v. Health Care and Retirement Corp. of America,(11) that nurses who...