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And that’s the foundational principle we’re advancing here today. And I can assure you this wasn’t easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom signed the law, some workers and labor leaders in attendance chanted “Sí, se puede!” (“Yes, we can” in Spanish).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the wage hike goes into effect on April 1, most fast-food workers in the state will have one of the highest guaranteed base salaries in the industry. The state’s minimum wage for all other workers — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-minimum-wage-inflation-686b6c1ddc9240f76e8e61613717edd8\">$15.50 per hour\u003c/a> — is already among the highest in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new minimum wage will apply to workers in fast-food chains that have at least 60 locations nationwide, with an exception for chains that make and sell their own bread, like Panera Bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, California’s fast-food workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes353023.htm\">earn an average of $16.60 per hour\u003c/a>, or just over $34,000 per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s below the \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.stanford.edu/data/california-poverty-measure\">California Poverty Measure\u003c/a> for a family of four, a statistic calculated by the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Equality that accounts for housing costs and publicly funded benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Thursday dismissed the popular view that fast-food jobs are meant for teenagers to have their first experience in the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a romanticized version of a world that doesn’t exist,” he said, noting that the vast majority of fast-food workers are women of color who are supporting their families. “We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice and stabilize an industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new $20 minimum wage is just a starting point. The council created by the law will also have the power to increase that wage each year through 2029, by 3.5% or a change in Consumer Price Index averages for urban wage earners and clerical workers — whichever is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today to make history, for not only one, but millions of fast food, essential workers,” Anneisha Williams, a Jack in the Box worker and mother from Ingleside, told other cheering workers at the signing ceremony. “They tried to shred us up like a piece of paper. Shame on them. … They tried it. But guess what? 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In exchange for higher pay, labor unions have dropped their attempt to make fast-food corporations liable for any workplace law violations committed by their franchise operators in California, an action that industry leaders said could have upended the business model on which the industry is based. Opponents of the law, meanwhile, agreed to drop their referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most fast-food restaurants in California are franchises, run by small business owners who buy the right to use the branding of specific fast-food companies, and sell their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups called the deal a “common sense” outcome that would, most importantly, preserve the state’s franchise business model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Signature of AB 1228 preserves the franchise business model in the state and solidifies the best possible outcome for workers, local restaurant owners, and brands,” Matthew Haller, president at the International Franchise Association, which represents franchise owners, said in a statement. “Common sense has prevailed, as franchising is responsible for creating opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people to become small business owners, and this agreement eliminates the existential threats our members faced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s signing, Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which helped negotiate the new deal, said the effort capped 10 years of work — including 450 strikes across the state in the past two years. 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"content": "\u003cp>As of July 1, 2023, the minimum wage has gone up in several Bay Area cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/July2023%20Minimum%20Wage%20Poster.pdf\">In San Francisco, the minimum wage is now $18.07 (PDF).\u003c/a> On July 1, it increased from $16.99, marking the biggest increase in the city’s minimum wage in the past eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/doing-business/operating-berkeley/workforce-standards-and-enforcement\">Berkeley has seen the same rise in its minimum wage\u003c/a> as San Francisco.\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/business/minimum-wage\"> In Fremont, the minimum wage has risen starting\u003c/a> July 1 from $16 to $16.80, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/688/Minimum-Wage\">in Milpitas it’s now $17.20\u003c/a>, up from $16.40. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/1024/Minimum-Wage-Ordinance\">in Emeryville, the minimum wage has gone up to $18.77\u003c/a> — higher than even San Francisco or Berkeley – from $17.68, now making the minimum wage in Emeryville one of the highest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these latest boosts, many Bay Area residents working minimum wage jobs struggle to make ends meet in some of the most expensive cities in the country. In San Francisco, someone with one full-time minimum wage job is expected to earn roughly $3,100 a month — an amount that is barely above \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a minimum wage job and are hustling to make ends meet, you know how important every single dollar is. Wage theft — that is, employers illegally keeping some of their employees’ pay for themselves — is still very common in California, particularly in the fast-food industry. A 2022 survey released by Fight for $15, a campaign funded by the Service Employees International Union, found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913643/most-fast-food-workers-are-victims-of-wage-theft-survey-finds\">nearly 60% of respondents were victims of multiple types of wage theft\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing what your rights are and how to keep tabs on your employer is critical to making sure you are getting paid the right amount, especially now that the minimum wage has risen in several parts of the Bay Area. Here’s a quick primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do now that the minimum wage has gone up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Check your pay stubs. Many employers use automatic payroll services that usually keep up with minimum wage changes, but it’s still a good idea to check the listed hourly rate to make sure it doesn’t list the outdated minimum wage ($16.99) or any lesser amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive your wages through automatic deposit and don’t receive physical pay stubs, you can contact your human resources or payroll department — or, in much smaller business, your boss directly — and ask for your most recent pay stub to confirm that what you got in your account is correct. In some cases, you can get this information yourself if your employer has a digital employee portal (the place where you can review other information, like your schedule or insurance benefits).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are paid in cash, you can remind your employer about the new minimum wage and ask them to count your payment in front of you — to make sure each hour is being compensated at the new rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Current Minimum Wages in Bay Area Cities\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-hP8iq\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/hP8iq/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"869\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I discovered my employer is paying me below the minimum wage. 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But remember, you are acting within your rights, and if you are not compensated correctly, small differences will add up over time — and you may be losing hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a year that can go to covering necessary expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, it is illegal for your employer to retaliate against you for speaking up about wage theft. If they cut your hours or fire you — and you think this is because you spoke up about being paid less than the minimum wage — you can report your employer to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\">Learn more about how to file a complaint for workplace retaliation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I spoke to my employer about my wages, but they are not doing anything about it. 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They have a team that investigates wage theft, and if they find that you did experience this, you can receive back pay and potentially additional compensation for damages. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm\">Learn more about how to file a complaint for wage theft.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important thing to keep in mind: The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has historically been understaffed and has struggled with a backlog of wage theft claims. In 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913910/despite-record-budget-surplus-california-unlikely-to-fix-massive-wage-theft-claim-delays-anytime-soon\">KQED reported that tens of thousands of claims have taken longer than a year to resolve\u003c/a>, while nearly 4,000 have languished for three years or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reporting your situation to this agency may not sound like the fastest solution, the Labor Commissioner’s Office does have the legal authority to make employers pay their workers back stolen wages and has done so in several big-profile cases. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2022/2022-89.html\">the Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2.2 million settlement\u003c/a> with the owners of three Saravanaa Bhavan restaurant franchises located across the Bay Area. 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We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped its funding in 2004 when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor, making it more difficult for the Republican to influence the state’s wage regulations. The commission has not issued any orders since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s budget, scheduled to be voted on this week, includes $3 million to bring that commission back to life. The commission has the power to investigate wages paid across various employment sectors. If it finds wages are “inadequate to supply the cost of proper living,” it can convene industry-specific wage boards to gather findings and make recommendations. The commission can then issue orders specific to wages, hours and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding would come with conditions. It would require the commission to prioritize industries in which more than 10% of workers are at or below the federal poverty level, a definition that includes California’s fast food workers, according to the University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Haller, president, International Franchise Association\"]‘We’re concerned about any attempt to create some Frankenstein version [of that law]. It speaks to [labor unions’] desire to create political control over our business model.’[/pullquote]It also ordered the commission to complete its work by the end of October 2024, days before voters are scheduled to vote on whether to uphold the fast food law. And because that funding is part of a budget bill, it could not be blocked by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haller, president of the International Franchise Association, said he sees that as a clear attempt by the Legislature to bypass the industry’s efforts to block the law creating the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned about any attempt to create some Frankenstein version” of that law, Haller said, noting that more than a million California voters signed a petition to block it. “It speaks to [labor unions’] desire to create political control over our business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles and chair of the budget subcommittee responsible for labor issues, said lawmakers were not targeting the fast food industry by restoring the commission’s funding. She said lawmakers were seeking to improve conditions for all California workers. 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"content": "\u003cp>At a warehouse tucked into a suburban Bay Area office park, along white folding tables lined up like an assembly line, about 50 people on a March morning snapped together plastic pieces of bicycle safety mirrors or stuffed envelopes with a nonprofit’s donor letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tasks were simple, but it’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laborers are all adults who have intellectual or developmental disabilities, performing jobs under contract for local businesses and nonprofits. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vistability.us/aboutus/\">VistAbility\u003c/a>, the nonprofit employment services provider that runs the shop, pays them each $3 to $14 an hour, depending on their speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement is legal — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254509782.html\">a 2021 law change\u003c/a>, California will soon ban paying subminimum wages to people with disabilities, a decades-old practice originating from the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2025 “sheltered” disability programs like the one at VistAbility — which together employ about 5,000 Californians statewide — must begin paying the state’s $15.50-an-hour minimum wage or shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition toward better pay has exposed a bitter debate within the state’s disability services community: Can everyone with a disability get a job in the broader labor market — and should that be the goal? And for a group of people largely receiving public assistance, what’s the role of a job in their lives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Bolle, VistAbility’s executive director, said when his workshop is required to pay minimum wage, some of the faster workers may be able to keep working. But he doubts local businesses and nonprofits will pay more expensive contracts to accommodate higher wages, and he predicted that the people with the most significant disabilities likely will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is essentially ignoring those people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Better jobs ‘within my reach’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At VistAbility some workers said they liked the company of co-workers, the steady tasks and guaranteed weekday hours. They said it would be harder to find an “outside job.” John Shillick, 61, said he used to clean motel rooms with the help of a job coach, but he found it difficult to keep pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to get a better job with a decent salary,” Shillick said. “I don’t know exactly what, but something within my reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of subminimum wage programs like VistAbility’s say they segregate people who have disabilities, keeping them from obtaining better paying work and greater independence — which they could achieve with the right services to assist them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/05/10/californians-with-developmental-disabilities-must-now-be-paid-minimum-wage-can-the-state-find-enough-good-jobs/042723-visitability-calmatters-skn-img_3743-02-cm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11949069\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM.jpg\" alt=\"people sit space out at a long folding table in a warehouse, with stacks of envelopes and bins in front of them\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VistAbility workers pack envelopes with BART Clipper card information and assemble mirrors for bicycle helmets. \u003ccite>(Shelby Knowles/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side, program operators and some workers’ families defend the current arrangements, saying these workers would not otherwise have job opportunities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/rc/dashboard/employment/\">About 20% of people who have developmental disabilities in California are employed\u003c/a>, the state’s Department of Developmental Services says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Bowers’ 42-year-old son, Cory, was one. He worked for nearly 20 years for less than minimum wage at an Orange County retail store, where an employment services provider placed him. Recently that provider shut down its subminimum wage programs, ending his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Bowers can’t imagine his son, who has Down syndrome, finding a job like that one, which provided transportation and a job coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no avenue for our kids to go to a job site, other than somebody’s going to have to pay them $16 an hour,” Bowers said. “He can’t do the job of somebody that’s earning $16 an hour. It’s just not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State resources for workers with disabilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new law requires that all subminimum wage workshops phase out. Whether their participants end up in better jobs, or with little to occupy their days, in large part depends on how California’s disability services system responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Developmental Services, which pays for these services, says it is ramping up funding so providers of job placement services can get those currently working for less than minimum wage into “competitive integrated employment” — that is, working for at least minimum wage alongside coworkers who don’t have disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the past is prologue, the Legislative Analyst’s Office notes such resources are under-utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Winfield, director of programs, California Department of Developmental Services\"]‘We have to set a new direction for our entire system, where employment is the expectation for everyone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office analyzed state-funded competitive integrated employment programs for workers with disabilities — including paid internships — and found that service providers used only 60% of the funds allocated in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. And that was \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Feb%2022%202023%20-%20Asm%20Sub.%201%20Agenda%20-%20DDS%2C%20SCDD%2C%20and%20DOR%202.22.pdf\">the most spent in each of the last five years (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developmental services department gave out $10 million in grants from last year’s budget to boost employment services and is developing another program this year to pay for placing workers with disabilities into competitive employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to set a new direction for our entire system, where employment is the expectation for everyone,” said Brian Winfield, its director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many worry that when workshops go away, there won’t be enough job placement services to go around. The disability services system is underfunded and understaffed, said Barry Jardini, director of the California Disability Services Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the challenge is around whether or not we have the policies in place in California today to make it possible on a broad scale to provide the intensive (worker) supports and job discovery, job exploration,” Jardini said. “Right now all of this policy change is being overlaid on a very stressed system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first workshops\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There also is a lack of data. The state tracks the kinds of employment services these workers get, but not the kinds of jobs, so it’s unclear where people exiting workshops are landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paying people with disabilities less than the minimum wage is legal because of a New Deal-era section of federal labor law called “14c,” designed to help wounded World War I veterans get limited access to jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers registered with the federal government to hire these workers at a fraction of the pay of other workers. The employers assessed their productivity every six months, comparing them to non-disabled workers making market wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the vast majority of 14c employers in California are vocational rehabilitation providers — job training services for people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians with disabilities have a constitutional right to services that allow them to live as independently as possible. If they seek employment help, state regional disabilities centers can refer them to 14c programs or to other employment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers in 14c programs can pay workers less than not only the California minimum wage, but also the federal $7.25-an-hour minimum wage, in two types of settings: At congregate, factory-like worksites sometimes called “sheltered workshops,” or in small work groups that are assisted by a job coach. In the groups, three or four workers split a single minimum-wage position, typically mopping floors or stocking shelves at a local business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subminimum wage positions are most suitable for those with the most significant disabilities, program operators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the national shift toward integrating people with disabilities into communities, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.usccr.gov/files/2020/2020-09-17-Subminimum-Wages-Report.pdf\">called for subminimum wage programs to end (PDF)\u003c/a>, saying the programs trap people in “exploitative and discriminatory” situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Pugliese, who has autism, worked in a video rental store after high school but lost that job when the industry crashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 21, a state regional center referred him to a sheltered workshop in the Sacramento area for employment training. At the workshop Pugliese assembled electronics alongside other workers with disabilities, cordoned off from other workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job paid him about $225 a month, included little useful training for other work and made him feel like “a cog in a machine,” said Pugliese, now 37.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know at that point in time that was nickels and dimes,” he said of his pay, compared to co-workers’.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carole Watilo, director, Progressive Employment Concepts\"]‘When you start from the premise that there are going to be people that you can’t find a job for, then that is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.’[/pullquote]A dozen states besides California have passed laws banning below-minimum-wage programs. Also a federal rule in effect this year requires disability services to be more integrated with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of jobs have already declined in California. In 2009, as many as 16,000 people with disabilities worked in the workshops or the small groups that split a minimum wage. By 2021, employment in those programs had fallen to about 6,000, state officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the phaseout deadline approaches, it’s up to the state and a network of disability service providers to help transition workshop employees into other jobs, if they want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fitting each worker’s need\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The gold standard, according to the independent State Council on Developmental Disabilities, would be a job placement and coaching service that’s highly tailored to fit each worker’s needs and abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carole Watilo directs the Sacramento-area Progressive Employment Concepts, which provides job coaching and placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a client who uses a wheelchair and communicates using a tablet device handles code enforcement for a small police department in Sacramento County, including spotting such violations as people parking illegally in disabled spaces. A support worker drives him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive initially placed him there as a volunteer, she said, then it received grants to cover his work. She hopes to find him ongoing paid employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start from the premise that there are going to be people that you can’t find a job for, then that is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Watilo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pugliese also sought job services at Progressive after leaving the workshop. When he told them of his affinity for pets, a job coach found him a state-funded internship grooming dogs. They tried him at several pet groomers until they found a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s on a health leave now but normally earns $16 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had more general impact on the actual shop than ever before,” he said. “My actual work effort was reflected in the shop’s progress. I mattered as a person and as an employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/05/10/californians-with-developmental-disabilities-must-now-be-paid-minimum-wage-can-the-state-find-enough-good-jobs/042723-visitability-calmatters-skn-img_3760-04-cm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11949071\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM.jpg\" alt=\"we look over the shoulder of an older woman with white hair as she works through a stack of plastic envelopes in front of her\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VistAbility worker Jennifer Painter assembles mirrors for bicycle helmets into plastic packaging. \u003ccite>(Shelby Knowles/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s realistic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Bowers, Cory’s father, said he doubts his son will work the same jobs as everybody else. That’s just the reality of the job market, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Cory Bowers went to classes with a group of other students with disabilities. After they graduated, Goodwill of Orange County placed him, with two or three others, at a clothing company’s warehouse and later at a local retailer. They hung clothes on racks, splitting one minimum-wage job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey took home $2.50 an hour, his father said. He loved his job and came home feeling accomplished and eager to spend his paycheck, taking his parents out to dinner, Chris Bowers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodwill of Orange County closed its subminimum wage program during the pandemic and never reopened it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the nonprofit had placed as many as 700 workers in its stores or in local businesses, paying them less than minimum wage. Rick Adams, its vice president of mission services, said the “vast majority” of businesses were not interested in taking the workers back at higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now about 100 people with disabilities work for Goodwill stores and 50 have jobs in the community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of working, Cory now participates in a day services program that drives him and others to visit the library, coffee shops and stores. Chris Bowers described it as “glorified babysitting” and says his son is “different mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Chris Bowers it was never about the money; his son lives with him and receives Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As parents, especially in my circle, we sure didn’t care what our kids made,” he said. “We just wanted our kids to be out in a job site, learning.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2025 “sheltered” disability programs like the one at VistAbility — which together employ about 5,000 Californians statewide — must begin paying the state’s $15.50-an-hour minimum wage or shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition toward better pay has exposed a bitter debate within the state’s disability services community: Can everyone with a disability get a job in the broader labor market — and should that be the goal? And for a group of people largely receiving public assistance, what’s the role of a job in their lives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Bolle, VistAbility’s executive director, said when his workshop is required to pay minimum wage, some of the faster workers may be able to keep working. But he doubts local businesses and nonprofits will pay more expensive contracts to accommodate higher wages, and he predicted that the people with the most significant disabilities likely will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is essentially ignoring those people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Better jobs ‘within my reach’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At VistAbility some workers said they liked the company of co-workers, the steady tasks and guaranteed weekday hours. They said it would be harder to find an “outside job.” John Shillick, 61, said he used to clean motel rooms with the help of a job coach, but he found it difficult to keep pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to get a better job with a decent salary,” Shillick said. “I don’t know exactly what, but something within my reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of subminimum wage programs like VistAbility’s say they segregate people who have disabilities, keeping them from obtaining better paying work and greater independence — which they could achieve with the right services to assist them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/05/10/californians-with-developmental-disabilities-must-now-be-paid-minimum-wage-can-the-state-find-enough-good-jobs/042723-visitability-calmatters-skn-img_3743-02-cm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11949069\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM.jpg\" alt=\"people sit space out at a long folding table in a warehouse, with stacks of envelopes and bins in front of them\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3743-02-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VistAbility workers pack envelopes with BART Clipper card information and assemble mirrors for bicycle helmets. \u003ccite>(Shelby Knowles/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side, program operators and some workers’ families defend the current arrangements, saying these workers would not otherwise have job opportunities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/rc/dashboard/employment/\">About 20% of people who have developmental disabilities in California are employed\u003c/a>, the state’s Department of Developmental Services says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Bowers’ 42-year-old son, Cory, was one. He worked for nearly 20 years for less than minimum wage at an Orange County retail store, where an employment services provider placed him. Recently that provider shut down its subminimum wage programs, ending his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Bowers can’t imagine his son, who has Down syndrome, finding a job like that one, which provided transportation and a job coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no avenue for our kids to go to a job site, other than somebody’s going to have to pay them $16 an hour,” Bowers said. “He can’t do the job of somebody that’s earning $16 an hour. It’s just not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State resources for workers with disabilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new law requires that all subminimum wage workshops phase out. Whether their participants end up in better jobs, or with little to occupy their days, in large part depends on how California’s disability services system responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Developmental Services, which pays for these services, says it is ramping up funding so providers of job placement services can get those currently working for less than minimum wage into “competitive integrated employment” — that is, working for at least minimum wage alongside coworkers who don’t have disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the past is prologue, the Legislative Analyst’s Office notes such resources are under-utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A dozen states besides California have passed laws banning below-minimum-wage programs. Also a federal rule in effect this year requires disability services to be more integrated with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of jobs have already declined in California. In 2009, as many as 16,000 people with disabilities worked in the workshops or the small groups that split a minimum wage. By 2021, employment in those programs had fallen to about 6,000, state officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the phaseout deadline approaches, it’s up to the state and a network of disability service providers to help transition workshop employees into other jobs, if they want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fitting each worker’s need\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The gold standard, according to the independent State Council on Developmental Disabilities, would be a job placement and coaching service that’s highly tailored to fit each worker’s needs and abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carole Watilo directs the Sacramento-area Progressive Employment Concepts, which provides job coaching and placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a client who uses a wheelchair and communicates using a tablet device handles code enforcement for a small police department in Sacramento County, including spotting such violations as people parking illegally in disabled spaces. A support worker drives him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive initially placed him there as a volunteer, she said, then it received grants to cover his work. She hopes to find him ongoing paid employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start from the premise that there are going to be people that you can’t find a job for, then that is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Watilo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pugliese also sought job services at Progressive after leaving the workshop. When he told them of his affinity for pets, a job coach found him a state-funded internship grooming dogs. They tried him at several pet groomers until they found a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s on a health leave now but normally earns $16 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had more general impact on the actual shop than ever before,” he said. “My actual work effort was reflected in the shop’s progress. I mattered as a person and as an employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/05/10/californians-with-developmental-disabilities-must-now-be-paid-minimum-wage-can-the-state-find-enough-good-jobs/042723-visitability-calmatters-skn-img_3760-04-cm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11949071\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM.jpg\" alt=\"we look over the shoulder of an older woman with white hair as she works through a stack of plastic envelopes in front of her\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/042723-VisitAbility-CalMatters-SKN-IMG_3760-04-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VistAbility worker Jennifer Painter assembles mirrors for bicycle helmets into plastic packaging. \u003ccite>(Shelby Knowles/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s realistic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Bowers, Cory’s father, said he doubts his son will work the same jobs as everybody else. That’s just the reality of the job market, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Cory Bowers went to classes with a group of other students with disabilities. After they graduated, Goodwill of Orange County placed him, with two or three others, at a clothing company’s warehouse and later at a local retailer. They hung clothes on racks, splitting one minimum-wage job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey took home $2.50 an hour, his father said. He loved his job and came home feeling accomplished and eager to spend his paycheck, taking his parents out to dinner, Chris Bowers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodwill of Orange County closed its subminimum wage program during the pandemic and never reopened it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the nonprofit had placed as many as 700 workers in its stores or in local businesses, paying them less than minimum wage. Rick Adams, its vice president of mission services, said the “vast majority” of businesses were not interested in taking the workers back at higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now about 100 people with disabilities work for Goodwill stores and 50 have jobs in the community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of working, Cory now participates in a day services program that drives him and others to visit the library, coffee shops and stores. Chris Bowers described it as “glorified babysitting” and says his son is “different mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Chris Bowers it was never about the money; his son lives with him and receives Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of a proposal to raise the minimum wage for California health workers point to Inglewood, where last fall voters approved a wage hike that primarily applied to staff at dialysis clinics and the city’s only hospital. But the implementation of that local measure has been bumpy, signaling potential problems for the larger effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/10/health-care-workers/\">Inglewood’s ordinance\u003c/a> went into effect Jan. 1, raising the minimum wage for those workers to $25 an hour. Then in March, Centinela Hospital Medical Center, a 362-bed acute care facility owned by Prime Healthcare, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CA_SUP_LAX_23STCV08047_d126900179e341_Complaint.pdf\">laid off 48 workers and reduced hours for others (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a complaint filed earlier this month by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West. The local union led Inglewood’s measure, and its parent organization, SEIU California, is sponsoring the statewide bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Renee Saldaña, spokesperson, SEIU-UHW\"]‘It’s not asking for the moon. This is just the baseline of a fair wage for the people who provide vital treatment.’[/pullquote]The union alleges hospital administrators made the cuts in retaliation for the newly implemented wage increase, even though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Inglewood-Ordinance-23-10.pdf\">the city ordinance prohibits health facilities from funding the pay increase by laying off workers or reducing their benefits (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela officials maintain that the hospital is complying with Inglewood’s minimum wage ordinance. They say they laid off workers after a thorough assessment that determined the hospital was overstaffed in certain units. Centinela offered nearly half of the affected staff other positions within the hospital and many accepted, according to a hospital spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recent reduction in force was entirely unrelated to the ordinance and affected 2% of the staff,” Susan Lowe, Centinela’s spokesperson, said in an email. “It was related to strategic changes in operational needs and improvement measures, and staff have been added in areas that positively impact patient care and address community needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit is pending, the union is advocating for a broader pay hike for California health workers via \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">Senate Bill 525\u003c/a>, by Los Angeles Democratic Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a longtime labor leader. Durazo’s bill calls for a minimum hourly wage of $25 that would be adjusted annually for inflation. California’s minimum wage is currently $15.50, although it’s higher in some cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the proposal becomes law, the new minimum wage would go into effect in January 2024 and benefit an estimated 469,000 health workers. It would include people who make slightly more than $25, \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Proposed-health-care-minimum-wage-increase-FINAL.pdf\">who would likely get a corresponding pay increase (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by UC Berkeley’s Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qualifying workers would receive an average increase of $5.74 per hour, which would increase operating costs at health facilities by about 3%, the report said. Some lower-paid workers in health facilities include nursing assistants, patient aides, medical technicians and janitorial workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal faces a great deal of opposition from industry heavy hitters, including hospital executives, clinic leaders and the doctors lobby, which argue this isn’t something all providers can afford or easily implement, especially when they’re dealing with other stressors in their budgets. The California Chamber of Commerce lists \u003ca href=\"https://advocacy.calchamber.com/policy/bill-tracking/2023-job-killers/\">the bill as a “job killer.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947102,news_11936507,forum_2010101892748\" label=\"Related Posts\"]But union leaders say the time is now, especially as the industry grapples with workforce shortages that are burning out current staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five dollars an hour breaks down to roughly $50,000 a year,” said Renee Saldaña, spokesperson for SEIU-UHW. “It’s not asking for the moon. This is just the baseline of a fair wage for the people who provide vital treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who would benefit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eneryk Santana last month joined the tens of thousands of people who commute daily across the San Diego-Tijuana border for work or school. He’s a medical assistant at San Ysidro Health Center in Chula Vista and the high cost of living on the U.S. side, he said, forced him to look for housing in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid rush-hour traffic at the border crossing, he tries to leave his place by 4 a.m. While the border cities are less than 20 miles apart, the process of crossing the border can take up to a few hours on busy days. The commute has been an adjustment, but, he said, his monthly rent in Tijuana is about $1,000 less than what he was paying in Chula Vista — a significant difference for someone making $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Santana, a boost in pay would allow him to consider moving back to the U.S., he said. Ideally it could also mean more people being attracted to this type of work. “Being short-staffed, when someone calls off, we don’t have much staff who can cover,” Santana said. “And it’s hard not only for workers, but also for the patients, who sometimes have long wait times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in clinics and hospitals account for about half of all workers who would see a boost in pay under Durazo’s bill, according to the analysis from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Because of their current low earnings, workers in home health services and nursing homes would see the biggest difference — approximately a 40% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-fourths of the workforce who would receive a raise under the bill are women, and almost half are Latino, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight against industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are leading the opposition to the wage hike, arguing that some facilities are in precarious financial situations. A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/hospital-closures-california/\">hospitals in the state have reduced or plan to reduce services\u003c/a>. Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-20/beverly-hospital-in-montebello-files-for-bankruptcy-in-effort-to-avoid-closure\">a Montebello hospital filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/01/hospital-closure/\">a hospital in the San Joaquin Valley closed its doors\u003c/a> at the beginning of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to boost minimum wage pay, hospital leaders say, would only add to that strain. A wage hike at this time “takes a very serious problem and makes it impossible,” Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, recently said in a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punctuating its point, the hospital association released a report earlier this month that found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanhall.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/CHA-Financial-Impact-Report.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=248c284920-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-248c284920-150460103&mc_cid=248c284920&mc_eid=099a508f5c\">1 in 5 hospitals are in an “unsustainable financial position” and at risk of closing (PDF)\u003c/a>. Hospitals are considered at risk if their incomes aren’t covering costs, meaning they are losing money and have increasing debt, said the report, which sampled 114 hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders have pushed back on hospitals’ arguments, noting that most hospitals are part of large health systems that can weather rough patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health economists have described the current landscape of California hospitals as a mixed bag, with independent and rural hospitals especially experiencing severe financial pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the peak of the pandemic, hospitals had increased expenses, but also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/funding-for-health-care-providers-during-the-pandemic-an-update/\">financial aid from the federal government\u003c/a>. That funding phased out in 2022. The state has not yet audited totals for this last fiscal year, but in 2021 California hospitals \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/29bacfe7-a98d-4183-9282-a5803a3d4c6e\">posted total earnings of $11.9 billion\u003c/a>, up from the \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/84d0a088-3689-40b4-ab82-6b04e8c0b213\">$8.5 billion hospitals recorded in 2019\u003c/a>, according to financial data from the Department of Health Care Access and Information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of counties has also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Counties-SB-525-Durazo-Sen-Labor-Oppose.pdf\">voiced its opposition to the bill (PDF)\u003c/a>, noting it would apply to workers at county public health and mental health departments, as well as clinics and hospitals operated by counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing such a bill would cost the counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, said Kalyn Dean, legislative advocate with the California State Association of Counties. To absorb that cost, she said, counties could be forced to reduce services and cut jobs in other government departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, clinic leaders say that while they support the idea of boosting pay for their workers, they are subject to strict reimbursement rules that do not allow them to take on the additional expense. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediCalExplainedHealthCentersPaid.pdf\">The vast majority of community health centers’ patients are covered by Medi-Cal (PDF)\u003c/a>, the health insurance program for people with lower incomes. Medi-Cal pays these centers a fixed amount per patient visit. Modifying that amount to afford a wage increase would require both state and federal approval, said Dennis Cuevas-Romero, vice president of government affairs at the California Primary Care Association, which represents health centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike other businesses, we can’t just say, ‘OK, the state requires us to increase the minimum wage, let’s just increase the cost of our services.’ We are prohibited from doing so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some provider groups are likely to seek an exemption from this bill, but community health centers say they would like to find a way to make this work because a “nightmare” scenario would be for their clinic employees to leave for better-paying jobs at a nearby hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our health centers want to get there,” Cuevas-Romero said. “I think the questions are: Where’s the money coming from? And how do we implement it?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But union leaders say the time is now, especially as the industry grapples with workforce shortages that are burning out current staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five dollars an hour breaks down to roughly $50,000 a year,” said Renee Saldaña, spokesperson for SEIU-UHW. “It’s not asking for the moon. This is just the baseline of a fair wage for the people who provide vital treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who would benefit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eneryk Santana last month joined the tens of thousands of people who commute daily across the San Diego-Tijuana border for work or school. He’s a medical assistant at San Ysidro Health Center in Chula Vista and the high cost of living on the U.S. side, he said, forced him to look for housing in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid rush-hour traffic at the border crossing, he tries to leave his place by 4 a.m. While the border cities are less than 20 miles apart, the process of crossing the border can take up to a few hours on busy days. The commute has been an adjustment, but, he said, his monthly rent in Tijuana is about $1,000 less than what he was paying in Chula Vista — a significant difference for someone making $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Santana, a boost in pay would allow him to consider moving back to the U.S., he said. Ideally it could also mean more people being attracted to this type of work. “Being short-staffed, when someone calls off, we don’t have much staff who can cover,” Santana said. “And it’s hard not only for workers, but also for the patients, who sometimes have long wait times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in clinics and hospitals account for about half of all workers who would see a boost in pay under Durazo’s bill, according to the analysis from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Because of their current low earnings, workers in home health services and nursing homes would see the biggest difference — approximately a 40% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-fourths of the workforce who would receive a raise under the bill are women, and almost half are Latino, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight against industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are leading the opposition to the wage hike, arguing that some facilities are in precarious financial situations. A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/hospital-closures-california/\">hospitals in the state have reduced or plan to reduce services\u003c/a>. Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-20/beverly-hospital-in-montebello-files-for-bankruptcy-in-effort-to-avoid-closure\">a Montebello hospital filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/01/hospital-closure/\">a hospital in the San Joaquin Valley closed its doors\u003c/a> at the beginning of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to boost minimum wage pay, hospital leaders say, would only add to that strain. A wage hike at this time “takes a very serious problem and makes it impossible,” Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, recently said in a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punctuating its point, the hospital association released a report earlier this month that found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanhall.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/CHA-Financial-Impact-Report.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=248c284920-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-248c284920-150460103&mc_cid=248c284920&mc_eid=099a508f5c\">1 in 5 hospitals are in an “unsustainable financial position” and at risk of closing (PDF)\u003c/a>. Hospitals are considered at risk if their incomes aren’t covering costs, meaning they are losing money and have increasing debt, said the report, which sampled 114 hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders have pushed back on hospitals’ arguments, noting that most hospitals are part of large health systems that can weather rough patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health economists have described the current landscape of California hospitals as a mixed bag, with independent and rural hospitals especially experiencing severe financial pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the peak of the pandemic, hospitals had increased expenses, but also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/funding-for-health-care-providers-during-the-pandemic-an-update/\">financial aid from the federal government\u003c/a>. That funding phased out in 2022. The state has not yet audited totals for this last fiscal year, but in 2021 California hospitals \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/29bacfe7-a98d-4183-9282-a5803a3d4c6e\">posted total earnings of $11.9 billion\u003c/a>, up from the \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/84d0a088-3689-40b4-ab82-6b04e8c0b213\">$8.5 billion hospitals recorded in 2019\u003c/a>, according to financial data from the Department of Health Care Access and Information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of counties has also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Counties-SB-525-Durazo-Sen-Labor-Oppose.pdf\">voiced its opposition to the bill (PDF)\u003c/a>, noting it would apply to workers at county public health and mental health departments, as well as clinics and hospitals operated by counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing such a bill would cost the counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, said Kalyn Dean, legislative advocate with the California State Association of Counties. To absorb that cost, she said, counties could be forced to reduce services and cut jobs in other government departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, clinic leaders say that while they support the idea of boosting pay for their workers, they are subject to strict reimbursement rules that do not allow them to take on the additional expense. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediCalExplainedHealthCentersPaid.pdf\">The vast majority of community health centers’ patients are covered by Medi-Cal (PDF)\u003c/a>, the health insurance program for people with lower incomes. Medi-Cal pays these centers a fixed amount per patient visit. Modifying that amount to afford a wage increase would require both state and federal approval, said Dennis Cuevas-Romero, vice president of government affairs at the California Primary Care Association, which represents health centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike other businesses, we can’t just say, ‘OK, the state requires us to increase the minimum wage, let’s just increase the cost of our services.’ We are prohibited from doing so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some provider groups are likely to seek an exemption from this bill, but community health centers say they would like to find a way to make this work because a “nightmare” scenario would be for their clinic employees to leave for better-paying jobs at a nearby hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The law will block out-of-state subpoenas and stop health providers from sharing information with out-of-state entities related to gender-affirming care, defined as “medically necessary health care that respects the gender identity of the patient, as experienced and defined by the patient.” That includes hormone therapy to suppress secondary sex characteristics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cyber flashing lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January, you can \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB53\">sue someone\u003c/a> for sending you “obscene material” against your will. Known as “cyber flashing,” this includes nude photos or videos or other material depicting sex acts. 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Lawmakers also did the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-california-gavin-newsom-84b7bf414b16f55454ce3e81544f5a10\">same thing for vasectomies\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB523\">that law\u003c/a> won’t take effect until 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Higher pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s minimum wage will jump to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-minimum-wage-inflation-686b6c1ddc9240f76e8e61613717edd8\">$15.50 per hour\u003c/a>. That will mean raises for about 3 million workers who earn minimum wage. The increase was triggered by inflation, as required by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\">a law\u003c/a> passed in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grace for pedestrians\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jaywalking and loitering will be enforced differently in 2023. Police officers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2147\">won’t be able to ticket\u003c/a> people for crossing the street outside of an intersection — unless they are in immediate danger of getting hit by a car. Likewise, police won’t be able to ticket people for \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357\">loitering for the purpose of prostitution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Haven for transgender kids\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107\">new law\u003c/a> will try to stop other states from punishing children who come to California for transgender surgeries and other \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-identity-sacramento-gavin-newsom-1bef273ba60e61a17960eaf8107f37f6\">gender-affirming care\u003c/a>. The law will block out-of-state subpoenas and stop health providers from sharing information with out-of-state entities related to gender-affirming care, defined as “medically necessary health care that respects the gender identity of the patient, as experienced and defined by the patient.” That includes hormone therapy to suppress secondary sex characteristics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cyber flashing lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January, you can \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB53\">sue someone\u003c/a> for sending you “obscene material” against your will. Known as “cyber flashing,” this includes nude photos or videos or other material depicting sex acts. A court could award economic and noneconomic damages, plus penalties of between $1,500 and $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shuttered stores could soon become affordable housing. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-gavin-newsom-government-and-politics-420473872ae2c94a4a357789a397caaf\">Two new laws\u003c/a> will open up much of the state’s commercial land for residential development while mostly preventing local governments from blocking the projects. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2011\">One law\u003c/a> will let developers build housing on some commercial land as long as a certain percentage of the housing is affordable. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB6\">Another law\u003c/a> will let developers build market-rate housing on some commercial land, but the projects will still have to go through an environmental review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Early release for critically ill incarcerated people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-treatment-of-prisoners-695248f5abb7cbf0b02ccdde15b18c7a\">will release\u003c/a> more ill and dying incarcerated people in 2023. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB960\">new law\u003c/a> eases the current standard for compassionate release, which critics said was too restrictive. Of the 304 incarcerated people who sought compassionate release between January 2015 and April 2021, just 53 were released by the courts, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disruptive meetings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Public meetings have always been a place for people to voice their frustrations with government. But the pandemic restrictions have only made those meetings more intense. 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It’s in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have too many workers in our society, in our communities, especially here in the community of Oakland, that are making such low wages,” said Gary Jimenez, vice president of the Alameda Labor Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame and embarrassment,” Jimenez said. “We need to be paying people that work 40 hours a week enough to exist on 40 hours a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally, staged on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 92nd birthday, was organized locally by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 as part of “Fight for 15,” an ongoing nationwide campaign to increase the federal minimum wage, which has stagnated at $7.25 an hour for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1783px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1783\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-scaled.jpg 1783w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-800x1149.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-1020x1465.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-160x230.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-1070x1536.jpg 1070w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-1426x2048.jpg 1426w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-3-1920x2757.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1783px) 100vw, 1783px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McDonald’s employee Cleotilde Cuaya and her son Alejandro at Friday’s car caravan strike to demand better working conditions and a $15 national minimum wage. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really bad working for McDonald’s, really bad working conditions from the point that this company does not give [us] appropriate PPE to work. So it’s been disastrous,” Maria Ruiz, from San Jose, who has worked at a McDonald’s for 20 years, said through an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided to do it on MLK’s birthday because we thought it was appropriate,” Ruiz said. “It’s about time that we stood up for ourselves and fought for better working conditions and for better wages nationwide. It’s in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California lawmakers authorized a yearly increase in the minimum wage, which will hit $15 an hour for most businesses in 2022 (it just went up to $13). Many cities in the state, including Oakland ($14.14/hour) and others in the Bay Area, have instituted even higher minimums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local organizers noted this progress and said they were joining the national day of action “in solidarity with workers across the country who have not yet won $15 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at the rally also demanded more influence on the job and enhanced safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people congregating and working in really close conditions, which is dangerous,” Maria Sabina Alegria, who works at the McDonald’s in downtown Oakland, said through an interpreter. “There’s times where they have to do many things at the same time, because things are not working. Sometimes they’re grabbing the money and the food at the same time because of unsanitary conditions that they have here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast food workers, Joseph Bryant, president of SEIU Local 1021, added, “have faced just some of the most unbearable conditions as they risk their lives each and every day in the pandemic making sure that communities have the food that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here today to say, ‘Treat the workers right. Respect them,’ ” he said. “For far too long, the big corporations have tried to frame the workers as expendable. But we know they’re essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Jimenez, vice president of the Alameda Labor Council, raises a fist in solidarity as the car caravan heads through the McDonald’s drive-thru in the Fruitvale District. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, a slew of complaints have been filed by workers at McDonald’s and other fast food chains, both locally and across the country, claiming their employers did not provide adequate safety equipment, enforce social distancing or allow those with coronavirus symptoms to take paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='labor']In June, workers at a McDonald’s on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824634/oakland-mcdonalds-workers-sue-management-over-covid-19-outbreak\">sued their employer\u003c/a> for unsafe, crowded working conditions that they said resulted in at least 11 workers at the restaurant contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the summer, outbreaks of the virus were reported at nine other McDonald’s outlets within 15 miles of the Temescal location, with more than 70 workers and their families testing positive or exhibiting symptoms, according to reporters from the investigative \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-15/mcdonalds-fails-manage-covid-outbreaks-seiu-steps-in\">news outlet Reveal\u003c/a>, based on a review of formal complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, McDonald’s — along with many of its franchisees — has claimed to be an industry leader in protecting its workers against the virus, imposing multiple safety procedures in consultation with prominent health clinics for advice on how to “further enhance hygiene and cleanliness practices in support of customer and crew safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Reveal reported, complaints filed by McDonald’s employees in 37 states suggest otherwise, depicting many of the chain’s restaurants – both franchises and corporate-owned – as COVID-19 incubators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" 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