Effective August 13, the City of Los Angeles has implemented a Healthcare Workers Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raises the minimum wage of private health care workers to $25 an hour in the city, with cost-of-living increases beginning in 2024. By comparison, the current citywide minimum wage is $16.04.
The ordinance is the result of a proposed ballot initiative brought by the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) who had collected a sufficient number of signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Thereafter on June 21, 2022 the Democratic-controlled Los Angeles City Council, at the urging of SEIU-UHW, chose to unanimously adopt the ordinance instead of having it on the November ballot.
According to the ordinance, “A 2021 Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that nearly 30% of health care workers are considering leaving their profession altogether, and nearly 60% reported impacts to their mental health stemming from their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
It continues: “A 2020 survey found nursing assistants, with a median income under $30,000, had a turnover rate of 27% per year, significantly higher than the turnover rate of 16% for registered nurses, whose median income is $73,300.”
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