Employers may wish that employees clamoring for higher pay would just go away. But acting on that wish may land the company in big trouble, as a Norcross, Georgia-based chain of skilled care homes learned last month.

The National Labor Relations Board on Dec. 23 decided that a nursing assistant for PruittHealth was discriminatorily discharged in 2022 after she discussed pay and raises with other employees and complained to management about higher pay for new hires.