The Court of Appeal published a ruling affirming a Riverside Superior Court’s decision not to halt a nurses’ labor case.
Three Desert Regional Medical Center nurses brought labor cases in either July, 2015, or July, 2016*, each claiming unpaid rest wages. The hospital requested the court force the suits into arbitration, and to halt the case while they negotiated with the nurse’s union in a separate case which began May, 2015.
Riverside Superior Judge Kira Klatchko denied the hospital’s requests for each case Sept. 29, 2020, Sept. 30, 2020, and Nov. 6, 2020, after ruling that the hospital had waived its right to compel arbitration.
The hospital appealed each
