Lately a debate on hiring older people for jobs that normally young vigorous college graduates are hired for has become a serious issue. Even in the nursing and health jobs sector increasing pressure has been put on employers to hire older people. The main problem most employers have with this, is the fact that they don’t want to spend the money to fund those who are aged as they are more prone to getting infections, and requiring quite a bit of money being shelled out by employers to health insurance companies.
After some recent laws passed in New York making it eligible for those over 60 years of age to get jobs they normally wouldn’t have gotten in the past, many employers are nervous about having to not only hire, but sustain the cost of health care for these newly employed.
Some of the jobs that have made their way into the scene in the health field involve MRI technicians, Nursing and Surgical technicians. The salary in New York city for these job functions is quite good, making it a prime target for all ages to get involved.
A surgical technician salary will definitely not compare with a mri technician salary which would be the most logical job for an older person looking at not having a fast paced career in the surgical tech field which also brings quite a bit of stress with it. This could cause many students to shy away from some programs which offer easy degrees for these jobs. If this happens, it could be possible that we will see a decrease in qualified techs within certain fields, thus posing a problem.
How will other cities fair which also change laws allowing for those who are older to get into new fields they may have not been encouraged too in the past? That remains to be seen.