Senior living construction booms 11 percent, fueled by surging demand
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 21, 2024
Senior living construction has surged 11% since last summer, with public sector projects outpacing the private sector in the first half of the year.
Business briefs, Aug. 16
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 16, 2024
Texas adds pressure with lawsuit against nursing home staffing mandate ‘power grab’ … Unemployment claims drop by 7,000 week over week: BLS … ‘Alarming’ legal opinion could be ‘detrimental’...
Court cites Civil War-era statute in decision that could lead to lawsuits against companies that hire...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 14, 2024
A recent federal appeals court ruling could result in more discrimination lawsuits filed by US citizens against companies that hire holders of temporary visas, according to one attorney.
FTC’s noncompete ban upheld in one district court — a different conclusion than reached in another...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 25, 2024
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday denied a request to block enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning noncompete agreements in most instances.
Minimum wage hikes have mixed results on workforce: poll
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 16, 2024
Increases in minimum wage also can be good for more highly paid workers, according to the results of an Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey released Wednesday.
Gender wage gap widens with age
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 10, 2024
“Older women workers — who comprise 47% of the labor force ages 55 and older — are plagued by a gender wage gap that is even larger than the one their younger counterparts experience,” according...
Employer-sponsored emergency savings programs can improve worker productivity, tenure
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 09, 2024
Employer-sponsored emergency savings
‘Significant benefits’ gained from state-run retirement savings programs: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 07, 2024
A state-run retirement savings program can provide “significant benefits” for workers whose employers don’t offer plans, according to a study of a model in Oregon recently published in Contemporary...
Healthcare cost growth rate down year over year, except for skilled nursing
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 23, 2024
Healthcare cost rates grew by 2.8% year over year in April, down from the growth rate of 3.1% seen the previous month.
New DOJ task force to tackle competition-related concerns in healthcare
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 13, 2024
The Justice Department said its Antitrust Division’s new Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion will consider “widespread competition concerns shared by patients, healthcare professionals,...