FYI : California Employment Law 2019

You are wrong again, and as usual, do not have a clue. This is because you are lazy, do not study, and do not care about women’s health. Typical of opportunists. You do not need to know anything as long ax you can lie convincingly.You only want to do or say what you think pleases your masters. The above post just explained a study that proved that when the slide limit is 70 slides in no less than 7 hours and within a 24 hour period, the false negative rate approaches zero. If these recommendations were upgraded to a law, it would be reflected in the enhancement of the labs bottom line, simply due to supply and demand. Hello. Is that any clear for you?

 

I can give you some history to this. The suggested slide limit prior to CLIA 88 was 50 cases or 100 slides because most cases were 2 slides each and some had 3 slides.- a vaginal, cervical, and endocervical side to each case. Conventional smears, of course. Later, in order to increase efficiency, the three sources were smeared by sections on one slide. The reason ffor this 50 case/100 slide limit was because, according to George Papanicolaou, himself, a tech who could not accurately screen 50 cases was not worth hiring.

 

Lmao!. What you are describing is the Peter Principle, where an employee is promoted to his/her level of incompetence. The truly qualified are cannot advance because they are held back by these incompetents. If they were promoted, who would do the work? I have to agree, that this is the work environment.

 

Harnaik, you need to chill out bro

 

If you call all your cases Negative, you get like 94 percent of them right. Different places have different ideas of what is acceptable. With HPV vaccines in the picture it is like finding a needle in 3 haystacks as the number of pre-cancer lesions drops.

 

Obviously you are not a cytologist or a pathologist. Your "statistics" are incorrect, you do not have a clue about the discipline and do not know what you are talking about.

 

Infection rates are down bro

https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/news/20190221/hpv-infections-in-decline-thanks-to-vaccines#1

 

We diagnose more than pap smears. Vaccines are not an HPV cure. The vaccines are not an HPV cure. But both HPV vaccines have been shown to provide protection for five years. HPV vaccination doesn't mean women can skip their Pap tests. Neither vaccine protects against all the types of HPV that cause cervical cancer. Beginning at age 21 until age 65, women should have a pap test every 3 years. Once age 30, the option of doing a pap and HPV testing or HPV testing alone every 5 years also is available.

 

That is a lie about protection only lasting 5 years. It is lasting WAY beyond that.

The issue is that lesions are going down and it will be like looking for a needle in 3 haystacks now. Going to be hard to beat HPV testing for that. Not to mention so many less students are going into the field.

It is obvious that cytotechnology is being phased out. Did you see the Guardant360 news from a few weeks ago? A blood test outperformed tissue biopsy for mutation testing for oncologists. Pretty soon it will blood tests that monitor patients for recurrence also. Non-gyn and fna volume are going to go down big time in the near future.

 

Really? Do you naively believe in propaganda and press releases? They are for Wall Street. Hpv is alive and well and if anything, it is increasing. If you don’t want to catch it, stop doing unprotected sex. Did you know that most HPV only stay in the human body 6 to 18 months before the immune system disposes of it? High risk HPV is of great concern, however, and should be be aggressively followed. And just because you carry HPV does not mean you are symptomatic or have neoplasia.

Where is your proof that there is any protection by the vaccine? You are the lier, because there is none. Furthermore, have you read the side effects? They are worst than the disease.

Don’t be afraid of progress.You cannot stop it, and progress is a good thing. However, cytology and histology are in no danger of being phased out anytime soon. And if A cure is found, so be it.

 

Really? Do you naively believe in propaganda and press releases? They are for Wall Street. Hpv is alive and well and if anything, it is increasing. If you don’t want to catch it, stop doing unprotected sex. Did you know that most HPV only stay in the human body 6 to 18 months before the immune system disposes of it? High risk HPV is of great concern, however, and should be be aggressively followed. And just because you carry HPV does not mean you are symptomatic or have neoplasia.

Where is your proof that there is any protection by the vaccine? You are the lier, because there is none. Furthermore, have you read the side effects? They are worst than the disease.

Don’t be afraid of progress.You cannot stop it, and progress is a good thing. However, cytology and histology are in no danger of being phased out anytime soon. And if A cure is found, so be it.

 

Oops, my bad. The law in California states that break time is a minimum of paid 10 minutes each. (15 minutes was recommended in the study) The law also states that company policy may determine a higher limit.

 

there are a few serious issues confronting the Cytology . In the Monrovia lab, there is a surplus of supervisors.you see, the previous lab director traveled and was in and out of the lab, so an administrator (sk), who triadged issues when the lab director was not available, was appointed. Recently, the Monrovia lab director was replaced by a director on site full time. Now, sk has nothing to do so she is poking her nose into cytology and trying to micromanage the cytology supervisor. Unlike clinical pathology, who has a manager with a background in Medical Tecnolgy, in most labs, personnel in anatomical pathology answer directly to the pathologist

The department already has a supervisor, MO. , with all the ancillary help that she needs. M.O. is doing just fine and the department is fine with M.O. Clent services can handle client issues. That is their job. Purchasing supplies is being handled.

Sk does not respect California labor laws (she probably doesn’t know what labor laws are) and she is now forcing cytotechnologists to work overtime on weekends, but not pay them overtime. Premium pay is NOT overtime and is not compliant. It is doubtful that she understands this.

There is a huge backlog in cytology b/c the department is understaffed. Since sk ,s position is unnecessary but cytology is in serious need of a cytotechnologist, Sk should go back to screening paps. Her Calif license is up to date and posted on the wall. Unless you only want to hire students directly out of cytology school, you need to raise salaries. LabCorp’s pay is very low. Second, sk has a terrible reputation in the field of cytology. No one who has heard of her wants to work with her. And no one believes her makeover but LabCorp’s corporate management. Cytology needs a cytotechnologist—not another supervisor.

 

Whoa, if you believe the vaccine is worse than having HPV you are buying into hype. Disappoints me to hear such talk especially in someone that should know better.

Here is an article stating vaccine still effective a decade on. You need to read more.
HPV vaccine is effective, safe 10 years after it's given, study shows

 

Exempt versus non-exempt California employees

Exempt employees are those to whom California overtime laws--as well as other wage and hour laws such as laws requiring meal and rest breaks--do not apply.

California wage and hour law requires employers to provide non-exempt employees with regularly scheduled meal breaks and rest breaks.

In my experience as a cytotechnologist, I have worked as in labs where my staus was either a non-exempt employee or an exempt. When we were required to clock in and out, we were considered non-exempt and took breaks and were paid overtime. In labs that did not have a time clock, We were treated as exempt employees (exempt from overtime and not required to break for lunch or breaks). We were paid at the “per diem” rate for weekend work.

 

Yes. And additional tests for non exempt is if your time is tracked and if you pay is time and/or production based (non-exempt vs job based (exempt).

Looks like a case can be made for non-exempt status based on the time clock alone.

 

The company will get away with every shortcut possible. Stuff like this happens all over the country.