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State nurses say mandatory overtime and registry spending hinder recruitment and care in CDCR
Summary
A licensed vocational nurse and bargaining‑unit chair told a Senate subcommittee that mandatory overtime, low shift differentials and heavy use of registry staff are harming recruitment and patient care; she cited large registry contract costs and asked for changes to hiring timelines and pay.
Heather Markovich, a licensed vocational nurse and bargaining‑unit chair, told the Senate subcommittee that nurses in California's prisons face mandatory overtime, low shift differentials, unsafe work conditions and aggressive use of outside registry staff that undermines permanent hiring.
"It is wrong that the state does this," Markovich said, describing low weekend and holiday differentials and contrast with registry pay. She testified that the California correctional health system has spent large sums on registry contracts and that some…
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