Regulations

The staffing issue

By Funeral Director Daily / August 28, 2019 /

A couple of things came to my attention last week that made me again think about the staffing issue facing funeral homes across the country.  While I am no longer on the front lines in looking for licensed staff, I do hear from my colleagues that hiring and retaining professional funeral home licensed staff is…

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Contrasting Forces: Landmark Preservation vs. Redevelopment

By Funeral Director Daily / August 23, 2019 /

What to do with a funeral home that has “become outdated and closed due to a drop in demand?”  That is the question that seems to have an answer from most of us and, in particular, the owner in this case Service Corporation International (SCI).  I’m guessing that most of us would put the building…

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SCI properties in the news

By Funeral Director Daily / August 21, 2019 /

For the 30+ years that I operated our family owned funeral home I had to deal with a maximum of about 17 employees or teammates at work at any given time.  You got to know all of them real well and as the manager of a small firm you really understood what was happening under…

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DOJ files another brief in funeral home transgender case

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2019 /

We learned yesterday that the Trump administration Department of Justice has filed another brief in support of the funeral home that will have its case on transgender discrimination heard by the Supreme Court this fall.  The case, which we highlighted in a Funeral Director Daily article that you can read here earlier this year, is…

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Arrest made in Tulsa funeral home fire

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2019 /

The Tulsa World reported in an article that you can read here that an arrest was made last Wednesday, July 31, in connection with a fire that destroyed the Dyer Memorial Chapel, then at 1610 East Apache Street in Tulsa, in 2015.  According to the newspaper the suspect was booked into the Tulsa County Jail…

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Marijauna and your employees

By Funeral Director Daily / July 29, 2019 /

Marijuana still remains a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substance Act.  However, many states have approved the medical use of marijuana.  So, what does that mean to you as an employer or you as an employee? In most instances courts will back the federal law.  However, some states have started to back employees…

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Cemeteries, Crematories, and their issues

By Funeral Director Daily / July 26, 2019 /

Just about every day when we peruse articles to opine on we can find articles that pertain to cemeteries and crematories and the problems they seem to cause to just everyday people.  You might argue that some of these issues are pretty petty and could be easily fixed, however, to the consumers they bother they…

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The alarming trend of county paid funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / July 23, 2019 /

As America is gearing up for its 2020 elections we hear a lot of campaign rhetoric about the haves and the have nots.  One of the statistics that you hear is that of a Federal Reserve survey that contends that 40% of U.S. adults said they couldn’t easily cover an unplanned expense of $400.  So,…

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The veto of Viking funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / July 15, 2019 /

Funeral Director Daily had kept you informed about what has become known as the “Jedi bill” in the state of Missouri this spring and summer.  The bill, proposed by State Senator Jason Holsman, a Democrat from Kansas City, would have allowed for outdoor cremations and supposedly made Missouri a mecca for so-called “Viking or Jedi…

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Funeral homes and real estate

By Funeral Director Daily / July 12, 2019 /

Today we bring you two articles about funeral homes and real estate that have been in the news lately.  We have written many times about zoning issues for funeral homes, crematories, and cemeteries, but today one of the articles actually tells of a funeral home that residents do not want to see demolished and the…

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