L.A. City Council is poised to raise health care worker's minimum wage amid worker shortages and burnout in hospitals and clinics.
The L.A. City Council voted today to raise the minimum wage for workers at certain health care facilities toThose covered include clinicians, janitors, housekeepers, guards, food service workers and many other workers at hospitals, clinics and nursing homes that are privately owned.
Councilmember Curren Price said he thinks the pay hikes will help keep people in the industry and attract health care workers amid staffing shortages. “If Target can afford to pay workers $25 an hour, we can ensure that our health care workers can also make $25 an hour,” Price said at the council meeting. “Now is the time to show these workers that we see them and that we appreciate them.”
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