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Health‑care workers, unions push to remove hospitals’ Wage Act exemption
Summary
Physician assistants, nurses and health‑care worker groups urged the committee to pass legislation (Senate 13‑21 and related House files) removing the longstanding Wage Act exemption for hospitals so employees can recover unpaid wages, liquidated damages and attorneys fees. Witnesses described withheld pay, forced PTO deductions and limited legal
Multiple health‑care workers and labor organizations testified Oct. 28 in favor of legislation to remove hospitals’ explicit exemption from the Massachusetts Wage Act. Speakers described scenarios in which hospital workers were denied timely pay, were forced to use paid time off for holidays without notice, or could not recover attorneys…
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