Newsom raises minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a bill Friday that would raise healthcare workers’ minimum wage to $25 after June 1, 2026.
The law would apply to clinics with more than 10,000 full-time equivalent employees, county-run facilities with populations over 5 million, and all dialysis clinics. Previously, California law had the minimum wage at $15 for facilities with more than 26 employees and gave smaller facilities until this year to comply. California has more than 1.1 million employees in the industry currently, with this bill applying to some 40% of them.
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This will also affect the salaries of full-time healthcare workers as it raises their “monthly salary equivalent to no less than 150% of the health care worker minimum wage or 200% of the applicable minimum wage, whichever is greater.” Violation of this law would resu …