Senseless Budget Cuts Will Gut California's Cost Efficient Home Care Program and Force Seniors and People with Disabilities Out of Their Homes and into In...(need and at the same time seniors and pe...),Health

Date:5/26/2009

need and at the same time seniors and people with disabilities could lose their homes and hard working home care providers are facing huge pay cuts that will force them into poverty?" said Ellen Rollins, a home care worker from Santa Clara County. "We've heard a lot in recent months about shared responsibility to solve the budget problem. Where's the shared responsibility in this?"

The vigil will include:

• candlelight prayer circles on Tuesday night,
• a rally and testimony by caregivers and people who are able to remain at home because of the homecare services they receive on Wednesday afternoon, and
• a mass to be celebrated Wednesday night.

SEIU Files a Class-Action Lawsuit

Also today SEIU filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, seeking a preliminary junction to stop the State of California and Fresno County from slashing the wages of homecare workers to near poverty levels and from to reducing the hours of care seniors and people with disabilities receive from going into effect. The suit, brought on behalf of individual consumers and SEIU, charges that the planned cuts put seniors and people with disabilities at risk and violate the American with Disabilities Act and Federal Medicaid Law.

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Governor Schwarzenegger's current proposed budget cuts would slash homecare workers' wages to just $8.00 an hour, a sharper reduction than the deep cuts already passed by the California Legislature in February. Wage cuts at any level will force thousands of homecare providers to leave their employment to seek living-wage jobs, forcing their clients to enter
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