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“It seems only fair that we provide hazard pay as a way to appreciate and fairly compensate the workers who are allowing us to continue to purchase the food and supplies we need despite sheltering in place. This is something that is long overdue,”
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February 13, 2021 12:00 PM
A screenshot from the 2021 virtual Lunar New Year celebration in L.A. The 122nd annual parade went virtual due to the pandemic. (Screenshot via Facebook Live)
The annual Golden Lunar New Year Parade, traditionally held in downtown Los Angeles, is going virtual this year because of the pandemic.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of L.A. hosts the celebration, which they say is the longest-running Lunar New Year parade outside of China. The event started in the late 1800s as a government-sponsored effort to bridge racial divides at a time when Chinese immigrants faced intense discrimination, and even outright exclusion from the country.
A California city could be the first in the nation to require pandemic hazard pay for farmworkers
A city in California is including farmworkers among those who must receive hazard pay for the risks they are undertaking during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Coachella, a Southern California city known for its popular annual music festival, passed an ordinance on Wednesday that requires retail pharmacies, grocery stores, restaurants and agricultural businesses in the city to provide additional compensation to their workers given the threat they face from the coronavirus.
Under the mandate, affected businesses that employ more than 300 people nationally or more than five people in the city will have to pay their workers an additional $4 an hour for at least 120 days. The regulation would also prevent businesses from retaliating against workers by limiting or reducing their pay.