{"id":643,"date":"2019-01-21T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=643"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:19:50","slug":"considerations-for-managing-an-aging-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/considerations-for-managing-an-aging-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Considerations for Managing an Aging Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The expected age of retirement continues to increase, sometimes by choice, often by necessity, perhaps due to family obligations, personal debt, or the high cost of healthcare, just to name a few reasons. When dealing with an aging workforce, employers presented with challenging situations stemming from employees\u2019 cognitive and\/or physical decline should be mindful of the potential legal risks and take appropriate precautions. Among the considerations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Monitor the workplace for age and disability discrimination or harassment.<\/li><li>Never assume that an employee is disabled.<\/li><li>Engage in the interactive reasonable accommodations process.<\/li><li>Outline options for disabled employees who refuse to acknowledge the effect of their health on the performance of their job.<\/li><li>Encourage employees to take advantage of available paid leave benefits as well as statutory benefits.<\/li><li>Consider offering employees supplemental insurance benefits.<\/li><li>Facilitate access to early retirement benefits when applicable.<\/li><li>Provide employees with information about social security disability benefits.<\/li><li>Continue medical insurance coverage for disabled employees when appropriate.<\/li><li>Consider non-employment solutions (such as emotional support from family or community groups) to assist your employee\u2019s transition to retirement.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For further discussion, read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/pdfs\/ESA_Memo_Aging_Workforce_2019.pdf\">memo<\/a>\u00a0by ES&amp;A Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/staff\/trisha-gibo\/\"><strong>Trisha Gibo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected age of retirement continues to increase, sometimes by choice, often by necessity, perhaps due to family obligations, personal debt, or the high cost of healthcare, just to name a few reasons. When dealing with an aging workforce, employers presented with challenging situations stemming from employees\u2019 cognitive and\/or physical decline should be mindful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}