Employers cannot artificially reduce an employee’s pay rate to avoid paying the proper amount of overtime, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed.
Bankrupt Friendship Village of Schaumburg receives bids from several companies
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 04, 2023
After filing for bankruptcy in June, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit continuing care retirement communities has received bids from several interested buyers.
Costs for linked-benefit long-term care insurance policies drop up to 15 percent from last year
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 15, 2023
Costs for linked-benefit long-term care insurance policies — policies linked with another type of policy, such as life insurance — generally are between 10% and 15% lower in 2023 than they were a year...
‘Fractional executives’ trending in the C-suite
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 13, 2023
“Fractional executives” are becoming prevalent in the C-suite, as reported by the Society for Human Resource Management.
RN wages projected to grow more rapidly than wages for other professions, study finds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 12, 2023
Registered nurse salaries are projected to increase over the next decade at a rate that surpasses the rate of increases for some other healthcare professions, according to the results of a recent study...
Long-term care mergers and acquisitions increase year over year
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 11, 2024
Mergers and acquisitions involving senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities increased by 34% year over year in the first quarter, according to data from LevinPro LTC.
NLRA doesn’t shield strikers who don’t take ‘reasonable precautions’ to protect employer’s...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 02, 2023
Labor unions cannot use provisions of the National Labor Relations Act to try to shield themselves from taking “reasonable precautions” to protect an employer’s property from damage caused by a sudden...
Unions can organize ‘micro units’ under revived NLRB standard
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 21, 2022
A Trump-era standard that prevented unions from organizing “micro units” that can include subsets of the overall workforce has been overturned in a decision issued by the National Labor Relations Board.
Physician groups ‘concerned’ about bill to expand nonphysicians’ scope of practice in SNFs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 15, 2022
Seventy-six medical associations have expressed their opposition to pending legislation that would expand nonphysician practitioners’ scope of practice, including in nursing homes.
HUD announces $42.5 energy benchmarking initiative for affordable housing providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 14, 2023
A new Energy and Water Benchmarking initiative for owners of affordable housing properties is funded with $42.5 million through the Inflation Reduction Act.