funeral home employment

Is the end of Non-Compete agreements coming? Will funeral directors be “Free Agents”?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2023 /

      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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Can understanding “The Great Resignation” lead to more death care workers

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2022 /

Over the weekend I conflated two situations and tried to make the argument that one situation could actually help the other.  What happened is that I have noticed that almost all funeral homes of a larger case volume seem to be short professional staff.  And, it’s not just in the United States — InvoCare in…

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COVID-19 and its possible effects on the funeral profession

By Funeral Director Daily / June 11, 2020 /

As I dwell on what is going on currently – such as the market rebounding to its past level, businesses opening up across the country, and school administrators deciding on how to safely open up for classes in the Fall, I cannot help but wonder if the funeral profession will have ramifications because of the…

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Plenty of opportunities for women in the death care profession

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2019 /

I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 — in a class of about 40 males and one female.  That is just the way it was. . .there were no young women going into the business at that time.  Today, the mortuary science classes at my alma mater are about 70%…

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The Changing Face of Funeral Service Education

By Funeral Director Daily / November 1, 2018 /

Jack Mitchell’s great-great-great uncle started the Mitchell Wiedefeld Funeral Home in Baltimore in 1837.  According to an article and news report from WBAL- TV that you can read and see here, it is one of the oldest funeral homes in Baltimore and has a rich history. Mitchell is quoted in the article when he says,…

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Finding the Passion

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2018 /

Just this past weekend I read an rather uneventful article about a new employee at a Tiffin, Ohio based funeral home that you can read here.  The article centers on the employment of young funeral director Jacob Bowers and his relatively new employment at the Hoffman-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home and Crematory. The article, in essence, tells…

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