Posts tagged Labor

New data from Jobber reveals the lawn care and landscaping sector, or Green industry, was not as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic last year as …

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a memorandum updating its enforcement guidance for compliance safety and health officers …

The National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) is applauding Reps. Cuellar (D-TX), Joyce (R-OH), Keating (D-MA) Pingree (D-ME), Chabot (R-OH), and Harris (R-MD) for introducing …

Each year during the first week of May, OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down week raises fall hazard awareness across the country in an effort to end …

Increasing productivity increases profits, and scheduling and route optimization are two key areas where landscaping companies can see significant productivity gains with small investments. In …

This article is presented in conjunction with “H-2B: The Basics” and “H-2B: The FEWA Perspective.” Finding employees has become one of the biggest issues in …

If an industry-wide landscaping labor shortage wasn’t enough of a problem, add the cost and difficulty of recruiting seasonal employees. These are primary reasons why …

For a lot of lawn and landscaping companies, the off-season poses a unique set of challenges when it comes to staffing. Being a seasonal business, …

It’s a job that’s usually done in the worst of conditions — total darkness, or blinding snow, or a coating of ice, or all at …

By Andrew Duncan From the Spring 2019 Issue One of the most common complaints I hear from business owners in the landscape field is that …

Rain Bird Services has introduced a new online training course designed specifically for individuals with little or no irrigation experience. The non-manufacturer-specific course, “Rain Bird …

The National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), through its Industry Growth Initiative, has been working aggressively to attract employees to the landscape industry, as there …

Staffing processes can optimize your chances for recruiting and retention success.

Thirty-one percent of small business employers currently have jobs they cannot fill because they cannot find qualified talent, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey, and …