employee benefits
Back in January of this year Funeral Director Daily published this article entitled “Federal Trade Commission seeks to ban (most) non-compete agreements.” There has been a lot of push-back to non-compete agreements as they have become common practice, not only for highly compensated professionals, but for general employees as well. During…
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Yesterday we took a look at how funeral merchants should expect their clients to pay for the services that they select. Our article took a look at crowdfunding, credit cards, savings, and, of course, preneed funding. And, we concluded that as good as it is to get payment done and out of the…
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It’s November and if you haven’t organized your budget for the 2023 calendar year yet, it is about time to get started. I always did my final work on the budget when November 1 came around and by the 15th of the month it was set for the coming year. I found the easiest way…
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New York based Empathy has raised $43 million in about the past six months. This article tells of their most recent raise of $30 million in Series A funding coming quickly on the heels of a $13 million seed round about six months ago. According to the article, “The U.S. end-of-life industry is projected to…
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I operated a funeral home business for over 33 years. When I started in 1980 the only benefits offered were health insurance and paid vacation. Over the next 33 years we changed with the times and I came to approve benefits that included not only health care and paid vacation, but also a 401k -like…
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There is no doubt that 2020 has been a different year in so many ways. Even a hundred years from now it will be remembered as the COVID-19 pandemic year. And, in many ways, it has been a very rough year for funeral service. This radio and print report that you can read and/or listen…
Read MoreOn Tuesday the Hormel Corporation announced a new employee benefit available to all United States Hormel Corporation employees. This benefit, that they are calling “Inspired Pathways”, will pay for two-years of community or junior college tuition for all children of the aforementioned Hormel employees. You can read an article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune here…
Read MoreI read and then viewed this news story from KPLC-TV of Lake Charles, Louisiana and thought to myself, “Wow they did a pretty fair job of telling of the plight of paying for a funeral when no planning has been done.” You see, a lot of people like to blame the unexpected expenses of a…
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