Posted on 07/09/2022 5:59:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Healthcare workers in Los Angeles just got a raise.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an ordinance Friday, July 8 that sets a $25-an-hour minimum wage for healthcare workers in the city. The law covers all private sector healthcare employees who work in hospitals, integrated health systems and dialysis clinics.
The measure was approved last month by the Los Angeles City Council in a 10-0 vote after SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West collected the required amount of signatures to put the wage hike on the November ballot.
Since the measure was initiated by a petition drive, the council could either adopt the initiative or put it before voters. The council opted to enact the measure.
An SEIU representative said the wage hike will apply to healthcare employees at more than 100 facilities throughout the city.
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If you are triple vaccinated no doubt
Interesting. I wonder what that represents to most healthcare workers in CA. $25/hr won’t go far with CA cost of living
I find minimum wage laws unconstitutional. Minimum wage isn’t what you have to be paid, it is simply banning all jobs below that amount.
When a 900sf home in a middle class LA neighborhood costs $500K...$25/hr min wage wont even make the mortgage payment. Who tf are they kidding?
Can someone explain how a city, county, or state can dictate what private companies are required to pay employees? Is there a legal basis or are employers bowing to threats?
It’s great if you’re a CNA
RNs and docs typically earn more than that
Why make it so little? They should make it $1000.00 an hour, new house, unlimited new car every year, free food for life.
The liberal left... Useless, clueless assholes.
Many health care workers in Los Angeles are about to learn the true minimum wage = $0.00.
One-word: LAYOFFS
Worked in a hospital for 45 years. Anytime there was an added expense to the hospital layoffs started. The Pathology department brought in the most revenue yet they were the first on the chopping block. Productivity equals fewer people doing more work. Unfortunately, fewer people mean more mistakes.
In my hospital, 10 years ago, Nurses were earning $77 Dollars an hour plus differentials.
That’s like $10/hr anywhere else.
I wonder what job codes are considered “health care workers?” Because there are a ton of non clinical jobs in health care. And, the professional, licensed jobs start at a lot more than $25/hr.
Does this include the hospital housekeeping staff, the food prep and servers, the admissions clerks, the receptionists? Will they not say they are healthcare workers too because they work in that setting?
Yes. Licensing.
Since it applies to janitors, security guards etc. it applies to lot of people.
Healthcare in LA just got more expensive - well insurances will pay, well insurance premiums will go up!
So the poor an minorities will be the most affected!
There may be a lot of janitors interested in working in LA hospitals now, but, I would imagine, there would not be too many openings.
Probably LA Healthcare work will became like other overpaid jobs - for family only.
If you are OUT, you will NEVER get these overpaid jobs!
Fascism?
Minimum wage laws are unfortunately constitutional. If you want to sponsor an amendment to ban them I will support it.
Well, that ought to help the nursing shortage going on.
I recently had a relative in the hospital (Los Angeles) - the nurses were few and far between and the ones I could find were completely overworked and frazzled - they said their patient load had been upped and they were beyond exhausted.
We were told to go home and “someone from the nurse’s station would call us with updates” - no one ever called, of course, and when two of us called repeatedly it took five hours for someone to finally answer the phone number we were given. That person took our number and we were told “someone would call us ASAP” - no one ever did, of course, after two full days.
The relative didn’t have his cell phone and apparently the phone in his room wasn’t working - we were not allowed to visit this particular section of the hospital at that time. It was a nightmare. When the relative was finally strong enough and able to get to a phone his first words were “GET ME OUT OF HERE!”
My son went and picked him up later that day (died two days later at home and in peace).
Years of inflation and wage suppression (h1-b, mass immigration) have distorted our economy.
We don’t have a shortage of workers we have a shortage of jobs that people can support themselves and their families.
Trump had the right idea, grow the economy and limit immigration and let supply and demand adjust the wages upward.
Trying to force wage hikes is similar to price controls in that it will distort the economy even more and cause more economic problems.
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