A family member works in a small rural hospital where the pharmacy department is contracted out to a pharmacy service company. A director of pharmacy and her plus an occasional weekend relief pharmacist and a couple per diem pharms.
The issues are these: The department manager is scheduled for 40 hours per week but is maybe there 30 hours per week, leaves early, comes in late and really doesnt help with the required work load when another pharmacist is there. he will sit in the office and pay his personal bills or cruise the internet. He makes sure he gets a lunch but will not fill in for her so she gets a lunch break.
Three years of rating 3.5 or 4 out of 5 and guess how much the raises are. ZERO. No raise for 3 years. Reason: nobody can get a raise because the hospital contract with employees and this pharmacy service company are not settled yet. Three years?? Yet, the pharmacy gets an award for saving the service company money and being profitable. Per diem people are making 15.00 per hour more. yes 15.00
Techs call off constantly for sick time(shopping, other family member doctor visits etc etc) or if the other techs perceive the hospital census is to low. Note: other techs call the techs off . this is okay with director unless he is there. one tech actually runs the department and him( an odd situation).
She had called me and expressed her unhappiness with the situation. she needs the job so walking out is not the best option right now. Do these service companies routinely not give raises or does the director of pharmacy get a larger bonus because of dollars saved to budget like CVS. should she get a lawyer? She has mentioned these issues to him repeatedly with no results. told her I would ask a group of peers.
What would you do?
The issues are these: The department manager is scheduled for 40 hours per week but is maybe there 30 hours per week, leaves early, comes in late and really doesnt help with the required work load when another pharmacist is there. he will sit in the office and pay his personal bills or cruise the internet. He makes sure he gets a lunch but will not fill in for her so she gets a lunch break.
Three years of rating 3.5 or 4 out of 5 and guess how much the raises are. ZERO. No raise for 3 years. Reason: nobody can get a raise because the hospital contract with employees and this pharmacy service company are not settled yet. Three years?? Yet, the pharmacy gets an award for saving the service company money and being profitable. Per diem people are making 15.00 per hour more. yes 15.00
Techs call off constantly for sick time(shopping, other family member doctor visits etc etc) or if the other techs perceive the hospital census is to low. Note: other techs call the techs off . this is okay with director unless he is there. one tech actually runs the department and him( an odd situation).
She had called me and expressed her unhappiness with the situation. she needs the job so walking out is not the best option right now. Do these service companies routinely not give raises or does the director of pharmacy get a larger bonus because of dollars saved to budget like CVS. should she get a lawyer? She has mentioned these issues to him repeatedly with no results. told her I would ask a group of peers.
What would you do?