University Of Maryland Medical System Commits To $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The University of Maryland Medical System connected Friday committed to a $15 per hr minimum wage, raising the salaries of 1,500 workers.

The wage hike is acceptable to instrumentality effect successful the wage play opening Sept. 12 and includes full- and part-time employees who are not represented by a union.

“Investing successful our squad members is an concern successful our aboriginal and successful our communities,” said Mohan Suntha, president and CEO of UMMS. “We are committed to providing equitable wage for our squad members and investing successful the radical who transportation retired our ngo each day. Our System has embarked upon a precise purposeful effort to go a destination leader for apical endowment by fostering an engaged, inclusive and divers workforce.”

UMMS officials said they person besides waived caps connected paid clip disconnected accruals during the COVID-19 pandemic and offered caller inducement programs.

The objective practices of the University of Maryland School of Medicine raised the minimum wage to $15 per hr backmost successful July.

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“While truthful overmuch of our corporate absorption implicit the past 18 months has been connected responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, our enactment ne'er mislaid show of our broader ngo – to alteration wellness attraction and physique connected our committedness to supply the champion imaginable attraction for our patients and amended service the communities successful which we unrecorded and work,” Dr. Suntha added.