My mom’s just got her RN, and she got a job at a clinic that is perfectly in line with her interests. They touted on-the-job training during the interview.
She shows up and finds out that the training is in the form of online modules that total at least 40 hrs of content. The rule on paper is that she can’t work until she completes that training during work hours.
However, they’re super understaffed, so they offered to “show her tasks around the office” while she does her training. This translates to them treating her as though she’s fully trained and giving her work throughout the whole day. They told her that she’s supposed to do the training whenever she has a spare minute, but there aren’t exactly spare minutes lying around.
Her boss has been hounding her to finish the training and suggested she do them at home if she can’t fit them into her workday. I’m trying to get her to log the hours she spends at home and submit them to payroll, but she feels like it’s her fault for not being able to watch 40 hours of nursing videos while working full time on the floor for them.
She’s new and excited, and it’s boiling my blood to see her give them a whole workweek of labor unpaid when they told her training would be compensated. Any suggestions on how to navigate this? She said it’s just “how the healthcare industry works” and that there’s no point of changing it.
Can I report something anonymously? Is there anything I can do that wouldn’t get her in trouble for being told to work before she finishes training?