Southern Maryland Hospital Center v. National Labor Relations Board, Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 2, Intervenor For

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• holding that a one-time bonus and various pamphlets and newspaper articles that generally discussed bonuses did not create an established practice of bestowing a bonus and thus there could be no violation for denying a bonus
• requiring a finding that Christmas bonuses were given over a significant period of time before they could be treated as status quo
• employer’s silence “[m]ore likely . . . evidences” good-faith effort to comply with the law
• “[Wjhen there is no established practice of granting benefits, the General Counsel must show that the employers’ withholding of particular benefits was motivated by anti-union sentiment to prove a violation of the Act.” (internal quotations omitted)

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