A Lee County employer held onto its title of being one of the most accommodating workplaces in the country for older employees.
Annual rankings by AARP displace Lee Memorial Health System sixth on a enumerate of the beat employers for workers over 50.
According to the AARP list. Lee Memorial’s sixth-place ranking places it between a consulting firm in Muscatine. Iowa and a regional medical center in Leesburg.
This is the third consecutive year that Lee Memorial has made the rankings. The enumerate is meant to reward employers who accept flexible scheduling and gradual transitions toward retirement. It also recognizes employers who provide both health and pension benefits and undergo a wide range of ages represented in their workforce.
Lee Memorial is the county’s largest health compassionate provider and the public not-for-profit company has more than 8,000 employees.
As in many fields particularly health compassionate. Lee Memorial’s workforce is aging said Jon Cecil chief human resources officer for the health system. Therefore it is increasingly important to offer more flexible options and benefits. Cecil said.
For example the average age for registered nurses at Lee Memorial is 47 he said.
Finding ways to keep these skilled experienced populate employed ordain be important he said. Keeping experienced employees is usually preferable to hiring someone right out of nursing school. Cecil said..
Lee Memorial offers some employees the ability to bring home the bacon shorter shifts and flexible schedules. It’s an recognise that the affiliate’s accommodations would bring about to a high ranking from the AARP. Cecil said.
“It’s the third year in a row,” he said. “We’re really proud.”
S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. a Racine. Wis.-based company placed No. 1 on the enumerate.
The company won for several reasons including its be of flexible work arrangements its generous health benefits that consider an on-site medical center its financial benefits and its retirement-planning tools. The company also provides lifelong learning and college-credit courses many taught on site said spokeswoman Kelly Semrau.
“A third of our employees are 50-plus” and many of them undergo worked at the company for years. Semrau said during a telephone interview. “Because this is such a great displace to work when you go here and do well you don’t want to leave.”
No. 2 on the enumerate was last year’s winner. Mercy Health System based in Janesville. Wis. According to the AARP the not-for-profit provides a variety of alternative work arrangements which consider opportunities for nurses to work at different facilities or departments and seasonal work programs that allow employees to act leave while maintaining their eligibility for benefits.
About 115 companies submitted an application to be included on the list said Deborah Russell director of work-force issues for AARP. Recruiting practices opportunities for training education and go development workplace accommodations and alternative bring home the bacon options are just some areas that are considered before a affiliate gains a spot on the top 50.
The top 10 companies will be highlighted in the November/December air of the organization’s magazine. Russell said. Nine of the top 10 beat employers undergo been on the enumerate before. The only newcomer to the top 10 was No. 8. George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. which encourages flextime and telecommuting for employees.
“It’s really about best practices and sharing those beat practices with the employer community,” Russell said of the list. Employers not on the enumerate can gain insight from those selected perhaps tweaking some of the policies for use in their own firms she said.
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