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Employment Standards

EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Employers are obligated to respect the professional status, privileges, and responsibilities of employed pharmacists.
Employers are obligated to provide working conditions that enhance the ability of employed pharmacists to utilize their full professional capacity in providing patient care service to the public.
Employers are obligated to provide employed pharmacists opportunities to increase their professional knowledge and experience.
Employers are obligated to fairly compensate employed pharmacists commensurate with their duties and performances. Such compensation should include benefits generally available to other professionals including, but not limited to, vacation, sick leave, insurance plans, and retirement programs.
Employed pharmacists are obligated to use their best efforts to further the services offered to the public by their employers.
Employed pharmacists are obligated to bring to the attention of their employers all matters that will assist the employers in maintaining professional standards and successful practices.
Employed pharmacists are obligated, when negotiating compensation, to consider not only prevailing economic conditions in their community, but also their economic position relative to other health care professionals.
Employed pharmacists are obligated to recognize that their responsibility includes not depriving the public of their patient care services by striking in support of their economic demands or those of others.
Both employers and employed pharmacists are obligated to reach and maintain definite understandings with regards to their respective economic rights and duties by resolving employment issues fairly, promptly, and in good faith.
Encouraging and assisting state and national associations to establish broadly representative bodies to study the subject of professional and economic relations and to establish locally responsive guidelines to assist employers and employed pharmacists in developing satisfactory employment relationships.
Encouraging and assisting state and national pharmacy associations to use their good offices, whenever invited, to resolve specific issues that may arise.
Assisting state pharmacists associations and national specialty associations to develop procedures for mediation or arbitration of disputes that may arise between employers and employed pharmacists so that pharmacists can call on their profession for such assistance when required.
Increasing its activities directed towards educating the profession about the mutual employment responsibilities of employers and employed pharmacists.
Developing benefits programs wherever possible to assist employers in providing employed pharmacists with economic security.
Continuously reminding pharmacists that the future development and status of pharmacy as a health profession rests in their willingness and ability to maintain control of their profession.