Missouri home care workers gathered at the Capitol to ask lawmakers to allow a rule requiring higher pay for them to take effect.
The workers are paid at least 7 dollars 50 cents an hour to bathe, feed and tend to Missourians who can’t care for themselves. They’re pushing for that 7.50 minimum wage to be increased.
An agreement ratified by the state Quality Home Care Council allows that rate to increase to between 8 dollars 50 cents and 10 dollars and 15 cents an hour.
The Department of Health and Senior Services is working to put that increase into rule.
Companies that contract out workers say the raise would cause them financial hardship.
