Mandatory Overtime is an issue that is dangerous for both patients and health care workers. When health care workers are forced to work past the point of safety, it puts patients at risk for error. The continued use of forced overtime leads to less confident nurses and forces nurses to leave the profession, creating a potentially dangerous situation for all patients and their families. But it is an issue that we can fix.

Through the hard work of health care workers coming together with a unified voice for patient care, the Pennsylvania State House passed our bill to ban Mandatory Overtime with strong bipartisan support in June of 2007. Now health care workers and people from all across the state are taking the case to the senate that the time is now to protect patients and ban MOT, but the Senate has dragged its feet on this critical issue. It is time to make them realize the incredible need to ban forced overtime.

We're Mandating the Senate. See how Health Care Workers went to the Senate Demanding Action.

HB 834 will ban Mandatory Overtime for all patient care givers except in a real emergency.

Contact your senator today and tell them to stand up for patient care by passing HB 834 today.

Protecting patients and respecting care givers is a priority for everybody. Let's make sure that our Senate makes it a priority too. Take the steps, make your voice heard, and help end forced overtime in Pennsylvania.