Minimum Wage

Many states’ nursing facilities are facing extremely difficult operating conditions, but Connecticut’s nursing homes are staring down double barrels that could make it increasingly hard for them to...

While several healthcare groups are fighting the state’s planned $15 an hour minimum wage for direct care workers in Medicaid-funded programs, the state’s largest nursing home association is not among...

Give us $700,000 and we’ll stay open, remote, private nursing home tells surrounding towns … Union representing 12,000 Veterans Affairs nurses plans protests amid shortages, stalled contract talks...

Long-term care providers wary of extra scrutiny should also be prepared for new opportunities in an administration that will likely expand insurance coverage and embrace innovative care models that could...

Increasing direct care workers’ pay to a living wage would not only raise their total wages by $9.4 billion by 2022, it would also come with a set of benefits for operators, which includes less staff...

Four California assisted living operators are facing eight felony charges related to wage theft, tax and insurance violations, according to local reports.

I remember with a sad chuckle the way my German friend Volker felt that American news coverage during one of his visits was too narrowly focused. Where, for example, were the stories about the Iraq-Iran...

Kindred Healthcare plans to “vigorously” fight a lawsuit filed by some California employees alleging failure to pay minimum wage and overtime, and restricting break times, among other charges.

The Department of Labor has announced it will extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home health workers providing direct care, earning cheers from long-time advocates of this policy.

If unions have their way, nursing homes and other low-wage employers will soon be portrayed as being on the wrong side of the civil rights movement.