LOS ANGELES (CN) An attorney for the California Grocers Association told a federal judge Tuesday a city of Long Beach ordinance providing a $4 an hour boost in hazard pay for grocery workers interferes with ongoing labor negotiations and should be blocked. The judge didn’t seem convinced.
The Southern California city’s “Premium Pay for Grocery Workers Ordinance” provides the $4 per hour in premium pay for essential grocery workers who face higher risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In court papers opposing an injunction, attorneys for Long Beach cited reports of grocery store corporations such as Kroger earning “eye-popping” profits during the pandemic while their frontline workers continue to face potential daily exposure to the novel coronavirus.
Los Angeles County will be requiring grocery and drug retail companies in unincorporated areas of the county to pay frontline workers an additional $5 per hour hazard, or "hero pay," amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fresno County restaurant, grocery store employees can get COVID vaccine starting next week
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Essential workers are moving from the checkout line to the front of the vaccine line.
More farm and food workers, including grocery store employees, will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine starting next week.
For Shannon Houston of Tower Health Foods, she says the news is a huge relief.
Throughout the pandemic, Houston says they stayed busy providing health to the community in the form of vitamins and nourishment.
Now, she says her own health can be a priority so she can return to helping others.
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