Riverside Superior Judge Harold Hopp tentatively ruled for summary judgment in favor of the Riverside Community Hospital in a labor law case Jan 18.
Plaintiff and traveling nurse Elizabeth Becker, who was placed at Riverside Community Hospital’s Magnolia facility by the traveling nurses organization Fastaff, claimed hospital management terminated her employment July 11, 2019, four days after she reported to her manager that she was supervising too many rooms due to a staff shortage and was injured by a patient as a result.
There was no stated reason for her dismissal, she claimed in her complaint.
Becker claimed she was terminated because she reported inadequate equipment and staffing shortages,
