Florida is home to 4 companies on the AARP’s list of 50 best employers for workers over age 50 years, with perks like flexible work schedules, phased retirement programs, free health-care benefits and retirement-planning seminars offered by some of the companies who made the list.
Companies on the 2013 AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50 award also actively recruit and retain mature workers.
The four Florida companies that made the cut and their rankings are:
- FCCI Insurance Group, Sarasota………………………………….18
- Central Florida Health Alliance, Leesburg…………………..31
- School Board of Brevard County, Viera………………………..36
- Lee County Electric Cooperative, North Fort Myers….. 46
Cosponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an association of human resource professionals, since its inception in 2001, the award has recognized employers who are ahead of the curve.
The list of 2013 winners includes employers from a variety of industry sectors, such as for-profit and nonprofit, health care, universities, financial services, construction, aerospace, and federal and county government.
The 2013 AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50 awards were announced Monday, with The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, topping the list.
See AARP’s list of the best employers for workers over age 50 below:
1. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Md.
2. Scripps Health, San Diego
3. Atlantic Health System, Morristown, N.J.
4. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
5. Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wis.
6. YMCA of Greater Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
7. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
8. Bon Secours Virginia, Richmond, Va.
9. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Va.
10. WellStar Health System, Marietta, Ga.
11. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
12. West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, W.Va.
13. George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
14. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
15. Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va.
16. S&T Bank, Indiana, Pa.
17. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
18. FCCI Insurance Group, Sarasota, Fla.
19. TriHealth Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
20. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), Washington, D.C.
21. Stanley Consultants Inc., Muscatine, Iowa
22. Southern Company, Atlanta
23. Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
24. Michelin North America Inc., Greenville, S.C.
25. Department of Veterans Affairs-Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.
26. Saint Vincent Health System, Erie, Pa.
27. Cianbro Corp., Pittsfield, Maine
28. SSM Health Care, St. Louis, Mo.
29. Solix Inc., Parsippany, N.J.
30. Mountain States Health Alliance, Johnson City, Tenn.
31. Central Florida Health Alliance, Leesburg, Fla.
32. Securian Financial Group, St. Paul, Minn.
33. One Nevada Credit Union, Las Vegas
34. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
35. MEI Technologies Inc., Houston
36. School Board of Brevard County, Viera, Fla.
37. Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls, S.D.
38. Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, Mass.
39. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass.
40. Coconino County, Flagstaff, Ariz.
41. Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind, Winston-Salem, N.C.
42. BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina, Durham, N.C.
43. Ochsner Health System, New Orleans
44. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
45. American University, Washington, D.C.
46. Lee County Electric Cooperative, North Fort Myers, Fla.
47. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
48. Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, Penn.
49. Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle
50. CheapCaribbean.com, Doylestown, Pa.
