The California Grocers Association today filed a legal challenge to an ordinance tentatively approved by the Long Beach City Council mandating an additional $4 in hourly “hero pay'' for supermarket workers who face greater risk performing their jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Los Angeles Explores $5-Per-Hour Hero Pay Raise
The ordinance would apply to grocery, drug and convenience store frontline employees.
January 08, 2021
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved drafting an ordinance that would make national supermarket and drugstore retailers pay frontline workers an extra $5 an hour in “hero pay,” Abasto reports. If adopted, the ordinance would apply to retailers with at least 300 workers nationally and more than 10 staff per store who operate in unincorporated parts of the county.
Supervisors Hilda Solis and Holly Mitchell co-authored the motion calling for a temporary “urgency” ordinance that would apply to store chains that are publicly traded or have at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 10 employees per store.
By Elizabeth Marcellino, City News Service
Published January 7, 2021
Holly Mitchell (File photo)
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors vote in favor of drafting an ordinance that would require national grocery and drug retailers operating in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County to pay frontline workers an additional $5 per hour in “hero pay.”
Supervisors Hilda Solis and Holly Mitchell co-authored the motion calling for a temporary “urgency” ordinance that would apply to store chains that are publicly traded or have at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 10 employees per store.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, these workers have continued to show up to their jobs despite the dangers of being exposed to COVID-19. Because of their work on the frontlines, families throughout the county have been able to access food and medicine they need during the pandemic,” Solis said. “While there is a light at the end of the tunnel … the health threats