http://phinational.org/archives/wage-cuts-imminent-for-ca-home-care-workers/ PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, & personal care attendants. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://phinational.org/archives/wage-cuts-imminent-for-ca-home-care-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3875 Anderson Waldon Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:27:25 +0000 http://phinational.org/?p=3627#comment-3875 Every day in the papers, we see people and industries that need to re-organize to ensure survivability. We have seen lost jobs and wages, benefits and confidence. What I didn't see in the article on the governor of California is where he has asked any other industry to do the same, i.e. entertainment. He has chosen to fix the government on the backs of the people who need the state the most. I would ask the governor to re-assess his position on this and to create the possibility of relating to the more poorly paid in his state. As people lose their health insurance, there will be a need for more Care workers for people with insurance and without. The people providing that care won't be there. they won't be able to afford to work. The necessary items we all use to live cost all of us the same. The welfare rolls probably will increase, if people can no longer afford to work. Every day in the papers, we see people and industries that need to re-organize to ensure survivability. We have seen lost jobs and wages, benefits and confidence. What I didn’t see in the article on the governor of California is where he has asked any other industry to do the same, i.e. entertainment. He has chosen to fix the government on the backs of the people who need the state the most. I would ask the governor to re-assess his position on this and to create the possibility of relating to the more poorly paid in his state. As people lose their health insurance, there will be a need for more Care workers for people with insurance and without. The people providing that care won’t be there. they won’t be able to afford to work. The necessary items we all use to live cost all of us the same. The welfare rolls probably will increase, if people can no longer afford to work.

]]> http://phinational.org/archives/wage-cuts-imminent-for-ca-home-care-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3871 Nita sims Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:05:51 +0000 http://phinational.org/?p=3627#comment-3871 This is ridiculous. I have worked in a department head position in long term care for the past twenty years. These people that work home health often work a lot of over time hours in order to make ends meet at their present wages. Many nursing home employees work extra in home health to supplement the poor salaries they get in health facilities. Someone needs to walk in the shoes of these people who care and usually love the elderly person often caring beyond what the patient's own family cares. I don't even live in California or do I know anyone who does home health in CA, but as a concerned citizen I write this. This is ridiculous. I have worked in a department head position in long term care for the past twenty years. These people that work home health often work a lot of over time hours in order to make ends meet at their present wages. Many nursing home employees work extra in home health to supplement the poor salaries they get in health facilities. Someone needs to walk in the shoes of these people who care and usually love the elderly person often caring beyond what the patient’s own family cares. I don’t even live in California or do I know anyone who does home health in CA, but as a concerned citizen I write this.

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