Woodbine Healthcare Centers Treatment Of Filipino Registered Nurses

Diversity in WorkplaceStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationCase Study One: EEOC v. Woodbine Healthcare Ltd.Recent statistics indicate that about 40% of foreign-educated nurses in American hospitals cite they are discriminated against in wages, benefits, or shift assignments (Spetz, Gates & Jones, 2014). They say that they also receive insufficient orientation. Evidently, foreign RNs often face discrimination in the form of denied chances to further their career founded on ethnic and/or racial factors. This was exactly the case with Woodbine Healthcare Center which discriminated on its Filipino Registered Nurses. Although Woodbine had petitioned the Immigration and Naturalization Services for consent to hire Filipinos as Registered Nurses, committing to pay them similar wages, they failed to do so due to a number of factors. It is evident that hospitals play a chief role in the American nursing labor market. Registered Nurses are actually considered the single largest occupation in most hospitals, accounting for about 30% of total employment in general surgical and medical hospitals (Spetz, Gates & Jones, 2014). One of the main factors that the Filipino RNs in the case presented were not paid as per