NHWSB meeting materials

2026 meeting materials

Dec. 10, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Nov. 12, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Oct. 8, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Sept. 9, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Aug. 13, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

July 9, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

June 11, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

May 14, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

April 9, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

March 12, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Feb. 12, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

Jan. 8, 2026

• Agenda

• Minutes

• NHWSB cert of worker orgs worker trng guide 2026 draft

• NHWSB notice update 2026 draft

• NHWSB sample curriculum presentation draft

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Meeting materials archive

Dec. 11, 2025

• Agenda

• Annual report

• Draft minutes from all public forums

• Memo:  Certified worker organization complaint

• Memo:  Fall outreach 2025

• Minutes

Nov. 21, 2025

• Agenda

• Minutes

Nov. 20, 2025 – public forum

• Agenda

• Minutes

Nov. 13, 2025

• Agenda

• Minutes

*rescheduled to Nov. 21, 2025

Oct. 9, 2025

• Agenda

• Evaluation tool

• Follow-up requests -- waivers and variances

• Instructions for minimum-wage costs workbook

• Minimum-wage costs workbook

• Minutes

• Updated application for waiver or variance, Oct. 8, 2025

Sept. 11, 2025

• Agenda

• Draft memo for board on public forums

• Logistics memo

• Minutes

Aug. 14, 2025 – canceled

• Agenda

• Minutes

July 10, 2025

• Agenda

• Minutes

• Special meeting

  • Agenda

  • Minutes

June 12, 2025

• Agenda

• AFL-CIO application followup documents (zipped file)

• AFSCME Council 65 (zipped file)

• Evaluation of worker organization certification application AFSCME Council 65

• Memo:  Process for canceling waiver review meetings (updated)

• Minutes

• SEIU application followup documents (zipped file)

  • SEIU new member welcome handout

May 8, 2025

• Agenda

• Evaluation of worker organization certification application AFL-CIO

• Evaluation of worker organization certification application SEIUHCMNIA

• Memo:  Next steps on public engagement

• Minutes

• MN AFLCIO (zipped file)

• SEIUHCMNIA (zipped file)

April 10, 2025

• Agenda

• Memo from Data Workgroup

• Minutes

March 13, 2025

• Agenda

• Minutes

Feb. 13, 2025

• Agenda

• Certification of worker organizations and worker training guide

• Memo:  Process for canceling waiver and review meetings

• Minutes

• Sign-in template

Jan. 9, 2025

• Agenda

• Certification of worker organizations and worker training guide

• Minutes

• Proposed amendments to Minnesota Statutes 181.211

• Year at a glance

Dec. 12, 2024 (special meeting)

• Agenda

• Leading Age Minnesota and Care Providers – complaint

• Memorandum in support of motion for preliminary injunction or in the alternative a temporary restraining order

• Minutes

Dec. 5, 2024

• Agenda

• Copy of cost of holiday standards 2024

• Draft minutes, Nov. 14, 2024

• Draft process waiver and variance application board

• Draft waiver and variance application

• Holiday pay and posting, employer slides

• How to holiday pay

• Minutes

• NHWSB annual report 2024

• Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board minority report

• Template holiday pay notice

Nov. 14, 2024

• Agenda

• How to, holiday pay rules

• Minutes

• Public engagement plan

Nov. 7, 2024 (special meeting)

• Agenda

• Mandated holidays implementation questions, November 2024

• Minutes

• Office of Administrative Hearings:  In the matter of the proposed rules governing holiday pay, certification for worker organizations and notice posting requirements for nursing home workers; Minnesota Rules Part 5200.2000 to 5200.2050

Oct. 10, 2024

• Agenda

• Authority to modify proposed rule

• Minutes

• Proposed expedited permanent rules modifying certification criteria, notice posting requirements and holiday pay rules for nursing home workers

• Rules establishing minimum nursing home wage standards, OAH 5-9001-40100; Revisor R-4847

Oct. 2, 2024 (special meeting)

• Agenda

• All comments – holiday pay

• Letter

• Minutes

Sept. 19, 2024 (special meeting)

• Agenda

• Draft curriculum, August 2024

• Minutes

• Sample curriculum

• Training content draft

• Draft sample follow-up document

• Sign up to speak at the meeting:  forms.office.com/g/ikampFm643.

• Flyer:  NHWSB public hearing on curriculum

Sept. 12, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes

• Public hearing on curriculum 2024

Aug. 8, 2024

• Agenda

• All comments

• Bylaws, updated May 21, 2024

• Draft curriculum, August 2024

• Draft minutes, July 18, 2024

• Draft sample follow-up document

• Minutes

• NHWSB public hearing on curriculum

• Proposed expedited permanent rules modifying certification criteria, notice posting requirements and holiday pay rules for nursing home workers

• Public hearing on curriculum 2024 for board

• QR code for NHWSB public hearing on curriculum

• QR code only for NHWSB public hearing on curriculum

• Sample curriculum

• Training content draft

• Workforce standards impact calculator, July version

July 18, 2024

• 5d draft plan for documentation workers trained -- for workgroup and board

• Agenda

• Draft NHWSB minutes, June 13, 2024

• Minutes

• NHWSB principles edited

• Principles

June 13, 2024

• Agenda

• Bylaws

• Calendar and upcoming work

• Draft meeting minutes May 9

• Minutes

• Principles

• Principles with additions and deletions

• Process for documenting training by a certified worker organization

• Wage standards draft from Revisor

May 9, 2024

• Agenda

• Copy of data analysis for the board

• Copy of fiscal analysis for the board

• Cost to nursing facilities of proposed standards, April 29, 2024

• Data request response

• Draft meeting minutes, April 29

• Draft rules holiday pay

• Draft rules initial wage standards

• Memo:  Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board rulemaking deadlines

• Minutes

• Review of data for board meeting

• Rulemaking process

April 29, 2024

• 5i. WSB scenario holiday-pay only

• 5i. WSB scenario holiday-pay wage floor

• 5ii. Revision to 2(a) and 2(b) proposals for costing

• Agenda

• Amend time-and-a-half proposal

• Fiscal analysis for the board, data request

• Memo:  Current proposals

• Memo:  Expense reports

• Minutes

• Proposal one:  Wage standards

• Proposal one:  Wage standards note

April 15, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes

April 11, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes

March 27, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes

March 21, 2024

• Agenda

• Draft meeting minutes, March 18, 2024

• Long-Term Care Imperative:  Estimated total cost of adding holidays and paying time-and-one-half 

• Memo:  NHWSB rulemaking deadlines

• Minimum standards options version 2(a)

• Minimum standards options version 2(b)

• Minimum standards options version 2(c)

• Minutes

March 18, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes

March 14, 2024

• Agenda

• Draft chart of wage standards questions

• Guiding principles

• Memo:  Nursing home job occupations

• Minimum standards options

• Minutes

• Presentation:  Questionnaire for current nursing home workers

• Presentation:  Questionnaire for nursing home employers

Feb. 8, 2024

• 5a. Minnesota minimum wages and benefits

• 5b. Analysis of data

• 5b. Memo from Data Workgroup

• 5c. Memo notes at public forum

• 5c. Presentation:  Public forums

• 5c. Public forum memo – Brooklyn Park

• 5c. Public forum memo – Duluth

• 5c. Public forum memo – Redwood Falls

• 5c. Public forum memo – virtual

• 5d. Draft plan for documentation, workers trained

• 5d. Draft rules for certification or worker organizations, potential amendments

• Agenda

• Minutes

Jan. 11, 2024

• Agenda

• Minutes