Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Study Points To Possible Link Between Minimum Wage Hikes And Lower Suicide Rates
Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says by Mihir Zaveri. The New York Times. January 14, 2020.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Cost-Burden of Management And Nonclinical Worker Wages Rises In Hospitals.
Wage Gap Between Hospital Executives And Doctors Is Widening, Study Finds. Wolters Kluwer Health/Science Daily. August 14, 2018.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Home Health Aides, The Fastest Growing Occupation, Make An Average of 9.70 An Hour.
America's Fastest Growing Job Pays Poorly by Annalyn Kurtz. CNN Money. March 11, 2013.
Taking daily care of the demographic tide of elderly baby boomers is not proving lucrative for those directly involved in care. About 40% of home health aides are on Medicaid. A provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1974 places the aides in the same category as babysitters exempting them from the minimum wage required and overtime regulations. The industry is under pressure to keep costs low and has resisted efforts to apply FLSA standards to home health aids.
Taking daily care of the demographic tide of elderly baby boomers is not proving lucrative for those directly involved in care. About 40% of home health aides are on Medicaid. A provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1974 places the aides in the same category as babysitters exempting them from the minimum wage required and overtime regulations. The industry is under pressure to keep costs low and has resisted efforts to apply FLSA standards to home health aids.
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