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Most companies haven t given essential workers pandemic hazard pay. One city is changing that. By Irina Ivanova Frontline workers mental health struggles
Although large employers have sung the praises of the retail, grocery, health care, delivery and other workers deemed essential during the pandemic, they ve generally resisted raising the pay of this mostly low-wage workforce.
Oxnard, California, is trying to buck that trend. The city of 200,000 is giving a $1,000 bonus to every essential worker who was employed at least three months during the heath crisis. About 1,700 workers will receive the gratitude pay, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, which represents about 450 affected workers.