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"Gail and the Right at Home team are at the cutting edge in helping people stay in their homes...."
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"Gail and the Right at Home team are at the cutting edge in helping people stay in their homes. They help with assistance in all forms promptly and in a caring manner. "
"Gail manages a wonderful, friendly, outgoing group of people with attention to detail and..."
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"Gail manages a wonderful, friendly, outgoing group of people with attention to detail and excellent customer service!"
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Aging in place assisted services that can range from companionship to 24 hour live-in care. Services may be related to transportation, homemaking ...
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"Mike responded to our need for a new garage door as well as took on a custom door request. Mike..."
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"Mike responded to our need for a new garage door as well as took on a custom door request. Mike was never about "we can't" do it and was about the attention to detail necessary in getting it done. Our work was done to his guarantee and to our satisfaction. Most important, Mike was more than a pleasure to work with and his product quotes and service delivery far exceeded my expectation in terms of quality, price and service. He is worth a look when shopping for new doors and special projects requiring doors. Honestly one of my best contractor/vendor experiences EVER!"
"Ted and his Right at Home team are experienced in home care. Ted's team has been offering..."
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"Ted and his Right at Home team are experienced in home care. Ted's team has been offering trusted, high quality in home care services to dozens of communities and thousands of seniors over the past 15 plus years. You can count on Ted!"
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i think we are looking at this the wrong way. We start our employees at $13.60 up to $16.00 per hour for homecare work. When employees feel the "value" of their job is diminished because the floor sweeper is making almost as must as the elder care worker it produces inequity and job...
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i think we are looking at this the wrong way. We start our employees at $13.60 up to $16.00 per hour for homecare work. When employees feel the "value" of their job is diminished because the floor sweeper is making almost as must as the elder care worker it produces inequity and job disatisfaction. It encourages employees to work under the table for higher wages. Why? The Department of Labor and the Commonwealth need to find their way to implementing management control systems for legislation instead of just adding to the overall burden of small business. It is not just the wage. It is health insurance. It is sick time. It is the increase in EMAC DUA TAX It is the new 2018 addition of the EMAC supplement which says every employer will pay an additional $750 in tax for every employee on Mass Health. This is not a small business burden. It is a Commonwealth problem. Every employee has a Payroll Burden that is part of their employment. As the burden goes up there is less flexibility to adjust the wage. I would love to pay all of my employees $16 + / hour but i could not then compete (it is already tough) because of the lack of oversight in the homecare industry as well as the lack of oversight by the DOL and the mismanagement of the Commonwealth related to MassHealth. I have employees on my staff making over $70k a year and yet they remain on MassHealth. My margins can't take any more erosion. I need to feed my family too!
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We provide homecare. Homecare is an unregulated industry in MA. Although we pay our employees pretty close to $15/hour now (and have always prided ourselves to pay at least $3 above minimum wage) moving the "minimum" directly to $15 will severely impact our ability to compete in recruiting new...
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We provide homecare. Homecare is an unregulated industry in MA. Although we pay our employees pretty close to $15/hour now (and have always prided ourselves to pay at least $3 above minimum wage) moving the "minimum" directly to $15 will severely impact our ability to compete in recruiting new employees and in offering services at a reasonable rate. I am in favor of higher pay for a number of reasons and for a number of industries but i do not think it is the answer for homecare. The Commonwealth needs to get licensing back for the private homecare industry and The Department of Labor needs to investigate the Wage violations that are happening now. Fix what is broken before adding more small business burden.
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