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Labor Dept. Issues Stronger Workplace Guidance on Coronavirus
New OSHA guidance seeks to mitigate, prevent viral spread in the workplace The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued stronger worker safety guidance to help employers and workers implement a coronavirus protection program and better identify risks which could lead to exposure and contraction. Last week, […]
Read MoreLabor Dept. Issues Stronger Workplace Guidance on Coronavirus
New OSHA guidance seeks to mitigate, prevent viral spread in the workplace The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued stronger worker safety guidance to help employers and workers implement a coronavirus protection program and better identify risks which could lead to exposure and contraction. Last week, […]
Read MoreDept of Labor Issues Favorable Live-In Home Care Worker Opinion
By Littler Mendelson In an excellent development for the home care industry, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an Opinion Letter permitting agencies to utilize consistent “shift rates” that are inclusive of a pre-payment of overtime when agencies compensate caregivers providing live-in services and extended shift services of 24 hours or more. Littler Mendelson […]
Read MoreThe Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Many of you have been asking whether you can make the COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for your employees now that it is starting to become available. In most states, employees within our industry will be included in the first tier of recipients. But what does this mean, given that some polls suggest 40% of the population […]
Read More“Littler: Ask the Experts”
Through Private Duty Home Care at NAHC’s partnership with Littler Mendelson P.C Labor & Employment Law Solutions, we are excited to share the “Ask the Experts” Article. Each week, we will feature a new question, from you our members, related to workplace issues and topics that will be answered from our experts and partners at […]
Read MoreDemand for Direct Care Workers Far Outstrips Supply
The direct care workforce will need to fill 8.2 million jobs from 2018 to 2028, with most of those jobs coming in the home care sector, according to a new report from PHI. Almost 4.5 million direct care workers tend to the elderly and disabled in America every day, and with a rapidly aging population […]
Read MoreHome Care Dominates the Best Jobs without a College Degree
Americans are attending college in greater numbers than ever before, but college isn’t for everyone and those who do not attend college still hope to find useful, meaningful work to support themselves and, in some cases, their families. Home health aide is the best job in America for those without a college degree, according to […]
Read MoreNAHC Wants Proposals to Build a Summit to Solve America’s Long-Term Care Workforce Problems
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is extending a request for proposals (RFP) from all interested stakeholders to organize a coalition-based Workforce Summit that will develop evidence-based strategies and solutions to address the workforce challenges faced by the industry. The Workforce Summit will be a catalyst for change, providing specific ideas, plans, […]
Read MoreWhat Home Health Aides Earn Varies from State to State
There is an enormous need for home health aides in the United States right now, and that need will only continue to grow in the future. As reported here in NAHC Report, home health aide is the most in-demand job in the country, and there is projected to be a massive shortage of home health […]
Read MoreMassive Caregiver Shortage Will Be a Major Challenge for Home Health and Hospice
Readers of NAHC Report are well aware that home health and hospice face a critical shortage of caregivers in the years to come. (See HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE for examples of previous coverage of this issue.) However, new information indicates this looming shortage could be even worse than previously believed – to the tune of millions of workers. A new […]
Read MoreWhat is the Home Care Workforce?
The home care workforce doubled from 2007 to 2017 to meet the rising demand for care in the home due to the “Silver Tsunami” of 10,000 people turning 65 ever day and the long-overdue, but still unfinished shift of resources from institutional settings to home-and-community-based settings. Over 2.1 million home care workers provide health care […]
Read MoreHealth Care Jobs in the U.S. Hit New High
The health care sector of the American economy added 24,000 new jobs in April 2018 and now represents almost 11 percent of all U.S. jobs, an all-time high, according to a new survey from Altarum. The 24,000 new jobs are a bit down from a monthly average of 25,500 new jobs per month over the […]
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