Want to keep employees? Offer a pension instead of a 401(k)
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 01, 2024
One way to entice employees to stay may be to offer them a pension instead of a hybrid retirement plan that is part pension and part 401(k), suggests a new report from the nonprofit National Institute...
Updated law expected to boost CCRC construction, expansions
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 15, 2022
An updated application and licensing process for continuing care retirement communities in South Carolina is expected to help drive more construction projects and create more housing for older adults in...
Fed unlikely to ‘take its foot off the brake’ anytime soon
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 03, 2023
The economic landscape remains volatile, National Investment Centers for Seniors Housing & Care Chief Economist and Director of Outreach Beth Burnham Mace said Wednesday at NIC’s Spring Conference.
Direct care nurses, aides are industry’s least likely workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 05, 2021
As senior living and care facilities wrestle with the dilemma of requiring workers to be vaccinated, a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reinforces the idea that higher vaccination...
Companies can require COVID-19 vaccination for employees: EEOC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 02, 2021
Employers can require workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, according to updated guidance released Friday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
CCRC pivots with marketing during pandemic, now fully reserved 10 months before opening
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 26, 2023
Location and creative marketing are proving to be secrets to early success for The Baldwin, a continuing care retirement community under construction in Londonderry, NH. The community is fully reserved...
Supreme Court case appears favorable toward employer in unionization dispute
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 25, 2024
The Supreme Court appeared Tuesday to be leaning in favor of coffee chain Starbucks in a union-related lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board that could affect all types of business owners.
CCRC files for Chapter 11 for third time in 9 years
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 27, 2023
A continuing care retirement / life plan community on Long Island filed for bankruptcy protection last month for the third time in nine years in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Christian groups appeal to Supreme Court to block OSHA vaccinate-or-test mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 21, 2021
Following the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Friday that the Occupational Health and Safety Administration can enforce a vaccinate-or-test mandate for large companies, multiple faith-based...
Lawsuit claims operator failed to protect cognitively impaired resident from sexual assault
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 10, 2021
A lawsuit filed by “Jane Doe” through her guardian Carol Smith names Assisted Living by Hillcrest LLC and West Bend Mutual Insurance as defendants for allegedly failing to protect Doe — a resident...