LANSING, MI-- State Representatives Sara Cambensy of Marquette and Sarah Anthony of Lansing have introduced legislation to create overtime protections for workers at long-term health care facilities.
The lawmakers say mandatory overtime often leads to negative impacts on the quality of care patients of long-term care facilities receive. Rural communities can be even more vulnerable to the effects of understaffing and high turnover rates with an ever-growing shortage of health care workers.
Anthony and Cambensy’s Prohibition of Overtime in Health Care Act would let employees have a say in their overtime work schedule and would impose fines for those who violate the Act.
