Trump administration temporarily blocks Minnesota's historic wage floor for nursing home workers

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Source: Associated Press

Trump administration temporarily blocks Minnesota’s historic wage floor for nursing home workers

By MATTHEW BLAKE/MinnPost
Updated 1:32 PM EDT, April 10, 2026

Unprecedented minimum wages for thousands of nursing home workers in Minnesota are delayed again.

Leah Solo, executive director of the state’s Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board, said at a board meeting Thursday that the Trump administration has reset to day one its 90-day clock to review the wage floor. Under the still pending state law, nursing facility employees must earn at least $19 an hour this year and $20.50 in 2027, with workers who have nursing licenses netting substantially more.

“I hate to bring bad news,” Solo said to a board that was trying to wrap its head around the Trump administration’s move and asked a series of unanswerable questions about what comes next.

The Trump administration action marks the second major bureaucratic delay over a wage floor that was set to go into effect Jan. 1. It comes as the first of its kind workforce board faces a lawsuit from nursing homes calling for its elimination.

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