With the global coronavirus pandemic compounding workforce recruitment and retention issues for senior living providers, a senior living trade association is partnering with a career network to launch a caregiver certification and job placement program.
Keeping your staff members engaged and ensuring that team morale remains high is paramount to preserving goodwill and, to put it pragmatically, your bottom line.
“We believe that our mission, vision and values demand that we take a stand to advance equity and diversity, inclusion and belonging in all forms,” Enlivant CEO Jack Callison says.
The increasing cost of personal protective equipment is making it difficult for some assisted living communities and nursing homes to hire more nurses and caregivers to battle against COVID-19.
Nursing and residential care facilities lost 28,100 jobs last month, on top of 18,300 jobs lost in June. That’s according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Residential care settings have shed jobs for five straight months, for a total of 220,000 jobs lost, according to the bureau.
As senior living organizations work to become more diverse, a new survey shares encouraging news about multigenerational workforces and anti-ageism efforts among various types of employers around the world. But work remains.
During these unprecedented times, senior living employers need to show workers more support than ever before by bolstering benefits and reward practices.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a move toward overcoming one of the biggest hurdles of current COVID-19 relief bill negotiations Tuesday. In a reversal, he said that he was open to extending the $600-a-week federal unemployment benefit that expired July 31.
As Congress gets ready to finalize a third relief package, one of the few remaining sticking points is slowly fading.
A federal judge has struck down the Department of Labor’s restrictions on which workers can access a temporary federal paid leave program, according to court documents released Monday.
