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.
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