Health, Safety & Workplace Violence — Kaiser Permanente — Washington RNs & ARNPs

16.1 The Employer will maintain a safe and healthful workplace in compliance with all Federal, State and local laws applicable to the safety and health of its employees. 16.2 The Employer shall form a Health and Safety committee composed of employee and Employer representatives. The purpose of the committee shall be to investigate safety and health issues and to advise the Employer of education and preventive health measures for the workplace and its employees. The committee shall allow for proportionate membership representation of employee groups. Broad-based and persistent health and safety concerns of individual employees or employee groups can be addressed to the Committee if they have not been adequately responded to at the facility or unit level. 16.3 The Employee’s Safety and Health committee, and the Union representatives to the joint committee, act hereunder exclusively in an a …

SEIU RN/ARNP 2023-2027 management decision-making process and mutual education and information sharing by both parties. The primary goal of the JLMC is to support staff and management in the delivery of quality patient care, including improved conditions conducive to the delivery of quality care and the recruitment and retention of nurses. The Employer and the Union recognize the importance of working together to provide an environment in which staff can effectively and safely provide care. The parties also recognize that staffing and workload are integral and critical elements of the work environment. The JLMC will develop an annual plan to address issues of mutual concern including but not limited to staffing, patient safety, workforce planning, etc. The JLMC shall use an interest-based process for problem solving. The JLMC may address matters subject to collective bargaining but shall …

SEIU RN/ARNP 2023-2027 Consistent with federal OSHA’s 1999 Compliance Directive, KFHPWA will evaluate and buy the most effective safer needles and other safer sharps to prevent needle stick injuries. This will include engineering controls such as needleless devices, retractable or self-blunting devices and plastic capillary tubes. Employees will be provided with adequate training and orientation on the use of safer devices. The Employer will involve frontline employees in the identification and selection of needles and other sharps and in designing and conducting the evaluations and pilot testing of products. Evaluation of devices with integrated safety features and protective barriers include cost, applicability, and effectiveness, with effectiveness being a primary determinant. The process will be overseen by the Regional Infection Control Practitioners and the Infection Control and Sa …

SEIU RN/ARNP 2023-2027 military duty shall be granted in accordance with applicable law. In order to be eligible for payments under this paragraph, the employee must furnish KFHPWA with a copy of the employee’s government check stub(s) showing the amount of military pay received. Except as provided in this paragraph, time off for military duty will be unpaid, although the employee may voluntarily choose to use available PTO. 11.3 Health Leave. In order to provide job protection for employees who are not covered by FMLA, after one (1) year of continuous employment with an FTE, one (1) durational leave of absence per rolling calendar year will be granted to employees who are not eligible for FMLA leave for a personal illness or injury, or disability because of pregnancy or childbirth without loss of accrued benefits. An employee who exhausts all of their FMLA leave is not eligible for a he …

Joint Commitment to a Just, Inclusive Workplace It is the expressed, shared interest of both Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington (KFHPWA) and SEIU Healthcare 1199NW (SEIU) that racism, discrimination, transphobia/homophobia, bias, and harassment will not be tolerated. It is the interest of both parties, upon encountering substantiated instances of racism, discrimination, transphobia/homophobia, bias, and harassment, to take action. As initial steps to operationalize the parties’ shared values around equity, inclusion, diversity, and racial justice within the framework of labor-management partnership, the parties agree to the following: Joint Labor Management Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (EID) Workforce Committee The parties will reconvene the Joint Labor Management Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Workforce Committee. The committee is tri-chaired by Labor, WPMG (at their discre …

SEIU RN/ARNP 2023-2027 b) In addition, KFHPWA commits to using best efforts to remove internal KFHPWA barriers to having ARNPs/DNPs assuming positions that are part clinical and part administrative. KFHPWA recognizes the importance of ARNPs’ ability to maintain licensure while working in administrative roles. Human Resources and Payroll will support efforts to encourage full utilization of the ARNP/DNP roles. c) KFHPWA and SEIU will, through the ARNP practice work group, explore mechanisms to provide a variable pay program that could include secure messaging and other alternatives to visits, patient satisfaction scores, HEDIS, etc. 14.6 Steering Committee. The parties will establish a Steering Committee consisting of KFHPWA President and Senior level staff along with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW President and Senior Union leadership to meet for the purpose of developing the joint work to be co …

14.7 JLMCs Transition. At the conclusion of the implementation of Unit-Based Teams (UBTs) the following Labor/Management Committees will be discontinued: • Nursing Home Services • All Nursing Practice Committees (Primary, Specialty, Care Management, and Home Health and Hospice) except for Inpatient, which will be renamed the Staffing Committee • The Spokane Relations and Communication Committee • The ARNP workgroup, if a “service-line” ARNP UBT is implemented. If there is no “service-line” UBT for all ARNPs, the ARNP workgroup will continue. • Members from Spokane may join the bargaining unit JLMCs (RN, SWEA, Service). Each BU committee will add one (1) EWA position. • Strike “WWA” from RN/ARNP • Prioritize launching service line HH & HP UBTs post-ratification The following Labor/Management Committees will remain in place for the duration of the agreement: •

SEIU RN/ARNP 2023-2027 Administration on broad-based productivity, workload, patient acuity systems, or other issues such as scheduling practices and innovative staffing patterns that may impact or contribute to an improved work environment and patient care delivery, and, in recognition of the mutual desire of the parties to maintain staffing consistent with quality patient care and good working conditions, (2) serve as a resource for problem-solving and development of alternatives when chronic facility or unit-wide staffing problems have not been adequately addressed after reasonable efforts between staff and management at the facility or unit level. Employees are responsible for first bringing such concerns to their manager in a timely manner for purposes of mutual discussion and problem solving. Compliance with RCW 70.41.420 will be delegated to the inpatient NPC. Individual staff may …