Kroger Co. will close two Southern California supermarkets in response to a local ordinance requiring extra pay for certain grocery employees working during the pandemic.
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Popular groceryretailer Trader Joe s announced this week that it would temporarily raise its pay for all employees amidst the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Trader Joe’s has provided all hourly Crew Members with an additional $2/hr thank you wage, in recognition of the outstanding, inspiring work they do every day, in our stores and communities, the company wrote in a Monday update on its website. Effective February 1, 2021, the thank you premium for all hourly, non-management Crew Members, was increased by two dollars, for a total of $4 an hour, it said.
LA City Council votes to move forward with hero pay plan for grocery workers
LA City Council votes to move forward with hazard pay plan for grocery workers
LA City Council unanimously voted to move forward with a proposed emergency ordinance requiring large grocery and pharmacy retailers to pay employees an extra $5 per hour during the pandemic.
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to move forward with a proposed emergency ordinance requiring large grocery and pharmacy retailers to pay employees an extra $5 per hour during the pandemic.
The City Attorney is now preparing the ordinance.
The President of the LA City Council, Nury Martinez, believes the hazard pay is necessary.
Planned Ralphs, Food 4 Less closings highlight issue of pandemic compensation for frontline grocery workers
The Kroger Co. is closing two supermarkets in Long Beach, Calif., because of a new municipal law that mandates hazard pay to grocery workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plans call for the Ralphs store at 3380 N. Los Coyotes Diagonal and the Food 4 Less store at 2185 E. South St. in Long Beach to close on April 17, the two Kroger divisions said yesterday. The chains said the two locations represent 25% of their Long Beach stores.
The Long Beach ordinance (Ord-27), passed by the city council in December and enacted Jan. 19, requires grocery retailers to establish “premium pay” of an extra $4 per hour to wage-earning store associates for a period of at least 120 days. Store managers or supervisors aren’t covered by the mandate, which applies to companies with at least 15 grocery workers for each store in Long Beach and with at least 300 grocery workers overall.
Oakland city council mandates pay raise for some grocery workers
Keith Burbank, Bay City News Service
Feb. 2, 2021
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FILE - A cashier, left, works behind a plexiglass shield at a Super H Mart grocery store in Niles, Ill., Thursday, March 26, 2020. Oakland s city council voted Tuesday to raise the pay of grocery workers.Nam Y. Huh/AP
OAKLAND (BCN) Oakland city councilmembers voted unanimously Tuesday to force large grocery stores to raise some workers pay by $5 per hour.
The ordinance was passed as an emergency ordinance, so it takes effect immediately. It covers stores over 15,000 square feet in size and that have 500 or more employees nationwide.