Category: Workforce

Healthcare jobs continued to grow in March, with certain areas of the sector showing strong growth on top of February’s numbers. 

American workers are 400% more productive than they were when the Fair Labor Standards Act established a 40-hour workweek in 1940. But CEOs — not employees — are reaping the fruits of that labor, according to a March 19 opinion article in The Washingto…

A proposed bill in California that would increase penalties for violence against emergency department workers has passed one body of the state legislature and awaits consideration in another.

Workplace violence is front and center in healthcare, with clinicians increasingly saying the issue has led them to change or leave a job. As hospitals look to establish and strengthen a culture of safety, some have invested heavily into weapons detect…

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health has significantly improved its staffing and is looking to go agency-free by late summer or early spring in an attempt to continue improving local patient experience. 

As Capitol Hill weighs a shortened workweek, many companies are already unofficially carrying one out, The Wall Street Journal reported March 27. 

Despite the buzz around flexible work, it is not among Generation Z’s top three desirable elements in a new job, according to a March 26 report. 

Beth Schmidt remembers the last time Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children’s Health Care System hired a travel nurse, and it was not recently. 

CFOs said scarcity of talent was the top contributor to staff shortages, according to a report from the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights. 

Most Gen Zers believe they’re graduating well-equipped with skills employers value. Employers beg to differ, according to a March 26 report.