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Vaccination Groups Expand in Pa & NY as COVID Cases Grow Getty Images jarun011 New York opens vaccines to people over the age of 16 April 6 while Pennsylvania is now opening Phase 1B of the vaccination plan.  That includes Postal Service Workers, people in congregate settings not otherwise covered, manufacturing workers, clergy and others essential for support for houses of worship, public transit workers and education workers.  Next Monday residents in Phase 1C will be eligible for appoint...

San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance to temporarily raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers...

LOS ANGELES—The Kroger Co. announced March 10 that it's closing three Los Angeles stores following the city council's ...

During Mayor Eric Garcettis COVID-19 briefing last week, he spoke about his support for the ordinance. "I absolutely 100% support the hero pay for our grocery workers, and with any good conscience, it shouldnt raise food prices because grocery stores are one area that have record profits, more money than theyve had before, Garcetti said. "I hope they will see this and maybe be inspired by it instead of being threatened by it. The Board of Supervisors on Feb. 23 adopted an urgency ordinance to r...

While the original ordinance would have applied to employers with 500 or more employees nationwide, Councilwoman Diane Papan proposed raising the employee count to 750 or more so that smaller, independent employers would be excluded. The City Council voted 5-0 in favor of the amended ordinance, which would apply to 10 companies in the city such as Safeway, Target, Trader Joes and Chavez Supermarket. Jennifer Chen, the citys economic development manager, said that Chavez Supermarket and Mollie S...

Shoshy Ciment/Business Insider People are calling for a boycott of Trader Joes after an employee said he was fired. Ben Bonnema said he had asked the company to do more to protect its workers from COVID-19. Bonnema shared his termination letter on Twitter, and it went viral. Trader Joes is facing calls for a boycott after firing an employee in New York. Ben Bonnema said on Twitter on Friday that he was fired from his job at the Trader Joes on the Upper West Side af...

LM Otero/AP Photo Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and a frequent cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this weeks column, Constant talks about the hero pay raises some stores like Trader Joes and Kroger adopted last year. Kroger later blamed this raise for store closures, despite paying out billions in profits to the companys shareholders. Last March, when lockdowns began, grocery store workers and deliv...

LA City Council moves forward with $5 per hour hero pay for grocery workers City News Service Share: LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 Wednesday to preliminarily approve an emergency ordinance to require large grocery and pharmacy retailers to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, because the ordinance was not unanimously approved on its first reading, the final vote will come during a second reading on March 3. "...

For tax season. michael finney has advice that could turn your tax status from owing money to getting money back. >> if we all get protected quickly, well just stop the virus in its tracks. >> good news tonight means we might be about to get a new weapon in our arsenal against the coronavirus. also, more people are eligible to get vaccinated in san francisco. were going to look at the details of phase 1b tier 1 and what else in the grocery workers, emergency service workers and educators can sig...

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....