Home-based care providers have had to deal with an uncertain legal and regulatory environment for almost two years at this point.
It’s created bottom-line challenges as well as workplace ones.
Cheryl Stanton, the chief legal and government affairs officer at BrightStar Care, experienced this first hand when the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccine mandate was announced.
“The mandate, it’s what we already had in place as a company,” Stanton said at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference earlier this month. “But still, the hostility that I got from employees from describing the program we already had – which was now being required by the federal government – was unreal. It was to the point where I was getting instant messages and calls daily. The last question I got was, ‘When Joe Biden fires me, will I get unemployment benefits?’”
The Chicago-based BrightStar Care is one of the largest home care franchise companies in the nation. Its overall network consists of about 340 personal care locations in 38 states. The company also has senior living communities located in the Midwest.
Daily questions from employees on shifting rules and regulations have become regular for providers. The worst part is that providers often don’t have the answers.
For instance, the OSHA private-employer mandate was halted by an injunction. On Sunday, however, it was revived by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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