Minimum wage

A California bill that proposes increasing the minimum wage to $25 for direct care workers and support staff members has plenty of opponents, including senior living industry advocates.

A Florida assisted living advocacy group and provider have joined a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleging that the state budget exposes them to class action lawsuits over a mandatory minimum wage for direct care...

Expanding public funding, increasing the minimum wage and unionizing workers are the first steps toward improving wages and working conditions in the residential long-term care industry, according to the...

Assisted living community employees are among the Los Angeles healthcare workers who may be covered under a proposed minimum wage ordinance aimed at forcing the industry to direct some profits toward worker...

A Lansing, MI, adult foster care company’s practice of treating its residential healthcare workers as independent contractors will cost it $94,000 in back wages.

Democrats place Build Back Better bill on back burner … Maine’s long-term care workers to see wage hike following higher reimbursement rates … Mandatory vaccine policies come with workers compensation...

Direct care workers in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in Maine are expected to see wage increases to at least 125% of the state’s minimum wage after Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced last...

ATLANTA — Assisted living and life plan communities have had much to deal with in the past 18 months, including fair housing challenges, vaccine mandates and exemptions, COVID-19 liability lawsuits,...

The owner of six California residential care facilities for the elderly must pay $8.5 million in citations over “systemic and egregious” wage theft violations after the state upheld an earlier finding.

Almost two million direct care workers could see their minimum pay raised to $15 an hour if Congress passes H.R. 602, better known as the Raise the Wage Act, according to analysis from the Economic Policy...