My partner is a nurse at a hospital in Maryland and they've been required to take mandatory training courses online (think cultural awareness/sexual harassment/etc. type corporate trainings).
As I understand it, they've been told if they don't do them, they can't work. Also, they don't get paid for it and can't clock in extra to do it at the hospital. I believe that the implication is that they do it mid-shift, when they're already so busy that none of them are even able to take their required meal breaks.
I've expressed that they should have the hospital management confirm this stuff in writing, but in the event the hospital doubles down… This has to be illegal, right?