Trader Joe's is raising its workers' pay by an additional $2 an hour during the coronavirus pandemic, as Los Angeles weighs an ordinance that would mandate an extra $5 an hour for many workers at large grocery stores and pharmacies.
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Kroger is closing stores rather than giving workers an extra $4 in pandemic ‘hero pay’ Paulina Firozi Robert Gonzales, a Kroger employee for 26 years, addresses a crowd of supermarket workers gathered to in front of a Food 4 Less in Long Beach, California on Thursday. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) Two grocery stores in Southern California will shutter in April in response to a local “hero pay” measure requiring a $4-an-hour increase for grocery workers during the pandemic. Kroger, which owns more than a dozen grocery chains, announced this week that it would close a pair of Long Beach stores a Ralphs and a Food 4 Less specifically citing the ordinance the city’s mayor signed into law late last month. The city was the first in the state to introduce a measure requiring some grocery retailers to give workers a temporary hourly pay bump during the pandemic.