Minnesota Nursing Home Workers Will Have to Wait for Raises because State Dropped Ball on Paperwork

Raises for Minnesota nursing home workers will be delayed because of bureaucratic error

Getty images. Long-anticipated raises for thousands of Minnesota nursing home workers will be delayed because the Minnesota Department of Human Services failed to complete the necessary steps to receive approval and funding from the federal government. Nursing home workers expected to see their pay increase around $2 per hour on average on Jan. 1, as approved by the state’s new Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board more than a year and a half a…

Minnesota nursing home workers will have to wait for raises because state dropped ball on paperwork

Unprecedented minimum wages for thousands of workers in Minnesota nursing homes had been set to go into effect Jan. 1.

Minnesota nursing home workers will have to wait for raises

Unprecedented minimum wages for thousands of workers in Minnesota nursing homes had been set to go into effect Jan. 1.  But adoption of this new law is indefinitely delayed. The reason is that the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has not yet filed paperwork with the federal government that is necessary to enact the law.  “I want to acknowledge that this is a little disappointing as we’ve heard from so many workers in the industry tha…