Since our alert on the status of the healthcare (and home care) budget was issued, we have received more information about the wage (not benefit) changes to home care worker compensation. We’ve also received a significant influx of questions about the minimum wage, benefit, timeline, programmatic, and other implications of what is – to our best understanding – a very rough draft of the final budget language regarding the home care worker minimum wage and wage parity provisions. Although the ink has not even been run on this language (let alone dried), here’s a high-level overview of our current understanding of the numbers and the timeline for home care worker wages.
Although the ink has not even been run on this language (let alone dried), here’s a high-level overview of our current understanding of the numbers and the timeline for home care worker wages.
