LA councilmen seek investigation into Kroger closing stores due to hero pay
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LOS ANGELES - Two councilmembers have introduced a motion to have the city investigate the reasons the Kroger Co. decided to close three Los Angeles stores following passage of a city ordinance that requires large grocery and pharmacy retailers to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The city has an interest in considering whether it should take legislative action to address these closures and potentially future closures of other grocery stores especially in areas of the city that are commonly known as Food Deserts, the motion introduced by Councilmen Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Paul Koretz reads.
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On February 24, 2021, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to pass an ordinance mandating that employers provide $5/hour in additional premium hazard pay for on-site grocery and drug.
EASTSIDER-First, we have another Superior Court Judge requiring the City to do something about sheltering LA’s homeless.
Then we have CD 14’s Mayor in waiting, Kevin de León, doing his usual not quite right attempt at a solution. Read on. . .
Here Comes the Judge
“Carter is overseeing an agreement between Los Angeles city and county governments in a case brought by the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a group of downtown business owners and residents that sued to force the city to shelter homeless people. Carter is requiring the city to find temporary shelter or permanent housing (with the county footing the bill) for several thousand homeless people mostly those living under or near freeways, because the judge has decided that it’s unsafe to live near the toxic fumes from vehicles.”
On February 23, 2021, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to institute a $5 per hour “Hero Pay” increase for frontline grocery workers and drug retailers in.