More than 400,000 Californians are expected to get a pay increase under the new law, which gradually raises the minimum wage to $25 an hour for health care employees.
What earlier this year seemed like a long shot is now a done deal: Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a law that will raise the pay for hundreds of thousands of California health care workers and set them on a path to a $25 minimum wage.
Newsom’s signing of the law means medical technicians, nursing assistants, custodians and other support staff will see a gradual wage hike that rolls out starting next year. He got behind the law on the same day that unions representing lower-paid Kaiser Permanente employees announced a new contract with a $25 minimum wage for the health care giant’s California workers.
Go Cali.
EMS is excluded, as god intended.
For saving lives, this is way too cheap.
What I want to know is why they are so willing to pay more for killing people than saving people?
just means that understaffing will be the new normal
Isn’t that the minimum pay for 17 year olds in Australia working at a supermarket?
Yes, but it may be worth looking up the conversion rate from AUD to USD before making that comparison directly.
Currently that would be $15.72 US. $15/hr minimum wage would be nice, but the standard federal minimum is still $7.25.
Lol how is that relevant unless you are saying the health care workers are still under paid?
They are, though. Adjusted for inflation minimum wage would land around $25, meaning a job you toil endless hours and have to be trained for should be paying like $50-75/hr.
I agree just wanted to understand what op was trying to say
