NURSE Visa act would allow qualified nurses into US to alleviate shortages
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 24, 2024
The National Urgent Recruitment for Skilled Employees, or NURSE, Visa Act, introduced Monday, aims to allow some foreign nurses to work in the United States amid a labor shortage
Labor market solid, with ‘notable pockets of weakness,’ ADP finds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 06, 2024
“Job gains and pay growth are slowing going into the second half of the year,” ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson said in a press release issued Wednesday in conjunction with the monthly ADP National...
Fed ‘may have gone too far’ with rapid interest rate increases, expert says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 14, 2023
A risk exists that the Federal Reserve “may have gone too far” with rapid interest rate increases over the past 14 months or so “and won’t know until they’ve gone farther,” Mary Ludgin, senior...
Maryland becomes sixth state to require salary, wage disclosures in job listings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 10, 2024
Effective Oct. 1, Maryland will join five other states and the District of Columbia in requiring employers to disclose salary or wage ranges upfront in job listings.
Feds aim to strengthen immigrant workforce, but do plans go far enough for long-term care?
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 30, 2023
New federal plans to strengthen the country’s immigrant workforce might bring the long-term care sector one step closer to alleviating its workforce shortage. But some wonder whether the plans go far...
Supreme Court weighs how far employers must go to accommodate workers’ religious practices
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 18, 2023
Freedom of religion is paramount among American liberties, but can a business require an employee to work on Sunday if it goes against that person’s faith? The Supreme Court will hear arguments today...
Supreme Court expands employers’ requirements for religious accommodations
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 30, 2023
How far must an employer go to accommodate a workers’ religious practices? The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an employer’s financial hardship must be more than a minimal one to deny a worker time...
Noncompete agreement ban faces first legal challenge
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 25, 2024
Less than 24 hours after the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule Tuesday that will prohibit employers across the country from using noncompete agreements in most instances, the rule faces its...
New online service launches to connect senior living communities with prospects
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 07, 2022
Not unlike online dating matching services, Chicago-based Referah launched Tuesday with an online referral service that matches operators with older adults seeking a senior living community. The idea behind...
53 percent of older women in new survey don’t think their income will last
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 02, 2023
Fifty-three percent of Peak 65 women — those aged 61 to 65 — do not think their retirement savings and sources of income will last their lifetime,