The new statutes introduced in 2024 significantly impact the minimum wage landscape for healthcare workers in California.SB 525 sets a clear schedule for incremental wage increases, ensuring that healthcare workers’ wages will rise to $25 per hour over the next several years.This phased approach ...
In 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signedSB 525, which required certain health care facilities to pay a special minimum wage to their employees starting June 1, 2024. Then, on certain subsequent June 1, that minimum wage would incrementally increase before eventually following an annual consumer pric...
2024, and January 1, 2025, depending on several potential triggers — the state’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has posted aHealth Care Worker Minimum Wage Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs) webpage to shed more light on this new law. ...
On July 7, 2022, Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the “Healthcare Workers Minimum Wage Ordinance” (“Ordinance”) which, effective August 13, 2022, increases the minimum wage to $25 per hour for healthcare workers employed at privately-ow
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16, 2024, at 1:02 a.m. Save More California Health Care Workers Get a Pay Bump Under a New Minimum Wage Law More Rich Pedroncelli FILE - Retirees Ron Martin, left, and Willie Mae Hampton, right, join other supporters of the Service Employees International Union at ...
Beginning January 1, illegal immigrants will be able to qualify for and use Medi-Cal, California’s taxpayer-funded free and low-cost healthcare plan for low-income residents. Experts warn that the state is already facing a healthcare shortage as a new $25 healthcare minimum wage threatens ...
“SB 525 strikes the right balance between significantly improving wages while protecting jobs and safeguarding care at community hospitals throughout the state,” she said in a statement. California’s minimum wage for most workers in the state is $16 an hour. Voters will decide in November whe...
Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California will get a pay bump Wednesday under a state law gradually increasing their wages to at least $25 an hour.
Information on health care reform and a minimum wage hike; Information on Senate Small Business Committee Chairman Christopher S. Bond, who is introducing several tax measures; Inclusion of tax measures in the...