Betsy Bean’s Regions’ November best
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 10:29 amLocally based Regions Bank Consumer Sales Manager Betsy Bean has been awarded the November Better Life Award by the bank for her dedication to the job.
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Filling Tennessee’s green job openings
Posted on at 8:34 am
The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the State Workforce Investment Board and MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center have received a $765,340 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to improve the matching of the state’s green jobs with workers.
The survey will focus on public and private interest in renewable transportation, sustainable agriculture, and Federal funding focused on the State’s burgeoning green economy. This survey will expand on prior green studies (Growing Green: the Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee 2008) by providing current estimates for the number of green jobs and green job vacancies within the 13 labor and workforce investment areas of Tennessee. A focus of the grant is to help workers affected by significant automotive-related restructurings connect to career pathways in green industries. Additionally, the grant will develop an enhanced online self-service labor exchange module to match green job seekers with respective employers.
All the DOL grants are here.
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We’ll be rid of her soon
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 7:29 amMTSU officials say they began taking formal action on Pam Holder’s employment status “immediately” after the nursing professor was sentenced for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.
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PureSafety ready to buy
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 2:18 pmWorkforce software provider PureSafety is now working with Avondale Partners in its search for acquisition targets. The Franklin-based company, which employs 100 people locally and moved to Cool Springs earlier this year, made its most recent buy in December 2008, when it acquired Unique Software Solutions.
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Join the club
Posted on at 1:38 pmAdvocat is planning to raise employee premiums and deductibles effective Jan 1. as it struggles with the cost of providing coverage to its workers, which rose $800,000 in the quarter. CFO Glynn Riddle said on the nursing home operator’s third-quarter earnings call today that that the company is self-insured for the first $160,000 in claims per employee and that claims in the $5,000 to $50,000 range jumped, perhaps due in part to hospitals performing more tests and procedures during a down economy.
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Nurses give Baptist employer award
Posted on October 19, 2009 at 2:44 pmThe Tennessee Nurses Association gave Baptist Hospital their 2009 Outstanding Employer Award at the group’s annual meeting over the weekend. The award recognizes a health care agency, school of nursing or other employer’s commitment to nursing and nursing excellence.
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Insurance software venture in consulting alliance
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 12:31 pmBrentwood-based Specific Software Solutions has hooked up with a Florida-based workers’ compensation insurance consulting firm to gain access to new agents for its modeling software.
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Taking wellness to restaurant workers
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 9:52 amChain Leader examines the challenges of expanding wellness and health management programs to the far-flung front-line workers of the restaurant industry, where turnover is high and vices pervasive. The piece, which mentions that Captain D’s plans to roll out a broad wellness plan, talks about the need for incentives, but also about pitching the plan more broadly to employees.
Anderson introduced the program cautiously, toning down the pervasiveness of smoking, obesity and substance abuse among industry workers. “The first thing you’d probably hear from our managers is, ‘Whew, I’m not sure I’m on the right side of that one,’” she says.
Instead, her initial presentation included data about the burden of such behaviors on the country’s health-care system. Anderson described how chronic diseases like hypertension and early-onset diabetes can be avoided by taking care of yourself. “I also talked about the costs associated with an employee population that is not well,” she recalls.
No loss of pricing power for health insurers
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 7:13 amA Kaiser Family Foundation study says that, despite the most painful recession in decades, the average family and employers can still expect to pay 5 percent more for a workplace health plan this year.
The survey shows that health benefits remained relatively stable despite the severe economic downturn. As noted above, this may indicate a strong commitment by employers to maintaining workers’ benefits, but also could reflect the possibility that some employers made decisions about health benefits before the implications of the worsening economy were fully apparent.
Click here for the report’s summary and here for the Kaiser Foundation page with much more info.
Ardent picks wellness partner
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 6:32 amAnd it ain’t Middle Tennessee neighbor Healthways. Hospital operator Ardent Health Services has signed Ohio-based Bravo Wellness to a three-year deal that will give participating employees a discount on their health insurance premiums.
Bravo’s corporate wellness programs provide employers with an average annual savings of nearly 10 percent. While only three in 10 employees participate in traditional wellness programs, Bravo’s programs provide financial incentives that increase employee participation. Most Bravo clients experience an average of 92 percent participation.
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Stay healthy, get a raise
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 8:37 amWith a helping hand from one of Richard Branson’s ventures, First Horizon is giving its employees an incentive to shape up.
By wearing a GoZone pedometer and tracking daily activity, employees will accumulate points (HealthMiles) toward a reward based on their levels of activity. Moderate activity pays off — walking, playing with the kids, cycling. Participation is optional and requires employees to make a $2.50 contribution each payday, which is every two weeks, to the cost of the program.
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VW expects 100,000 applications
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 11:36 am
The auto maker’s Chattanooga HR chief says his team is building a system to handle 100,000 job applications for the less than 2,000 it expects to begin bringing on early next year.
SEE ALSO: VW of America boss Stefan Jacoby talks to The Detroit News about VW’s plans, including how it will fix a brand that “got a little bit lost.”
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Local blogger pimped by online magazine rack
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 2:32 pm
The Antipimp blog maintained by IT recruiter Scott Gordon at Vaco Technology has been named one of the top career-focused blogs by Alltop.com, a news aggregator founded by noted venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.
I’d heard all of the horror stories in dealing with recruiters or “pimps” and started writing TheAntiPimp.com. I researched other recruiters that blogged and found most were writing to other recruiters. No one wrote to the job seeker … the most important person to me, as a recruiter.
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Great news for those still around
Posted on June 15, 2009 at 10:17 amThe fact that HCA laid off nearly 100 people from its corporate IT department last December didn’t stop Computerworld from recently naming it one of the best places to work.
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) announced today that it has been selected as one of Computerworld’s top workplaces for information technology professionals. HCA is ranked No. 56 on the publication’s top 100 list.
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CCA’s HR exec to retire
Posted on June 8, 2009 at 4:09 pmWilliam Rusak will turn in his parking pass at Corrections Corp. at the end of this year and consult through next June. The 63-year-old has been CCA’s chief HR officer since mid-2006.
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