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This story is tangentially related to Covid, but it is all kinds of stupid.

A small group of employees of ThedaCare (a major hospital system) took new jobs at another system, Ascension, which had offered them a better benefits package. ThedaCare got upset about this and convinced a judge to impose an injunction on this move, which now means that these specialists will not be working at either facility until ThedaCare and Ascension can resolve their conflict.

Naturally, these health care specialists had at will jobs at ThedaCare, so how they can get a ruling like this is baffling. They complained about a shortage of healthcare workers, so the solution is to make the shortage even worse.

Apparently, ThedaCare was shown the offers that Ascension had made to these people and responded with something like "Meh, we can't afford to match that." And clearly there were no contracts involved, so the fact that ThedaCare (which is a major provider in the area) can get away with a stunt like this is troubling.