Minnesota Nursing Home Workers Will Have To Wait For Raises Because State Dropped Ball On Paperwork

CBS Minnesota

December 15, 2025

Unprecedented minimum wages for thousands of workers in Minnesota nursing homes had been set to go into effect Jan. 1.

But adoption of this new law is indefinitely delayed. The reason is that the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has not yet filed paperwork with the federal government that is necessary to enact the law.

"I want to acknowledge that this is a little disappointing as we've heard from so many workers in the industry that the coming minimum wage increases had given them some hope," said Jamie Gulley, who is the chair of Minnesota's Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board and is also president of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa.

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