Minnesota's frontline worker pay group takes shape, $250 million on the line Ahead of a deadline Thursday, lawmakers this week were named to a working group that will allocate pay to workers that used PTO to quarantine or took unpaid leave. 3:50 pm, Jul. 14, 2021 × Dr. Fred Hund, left, a hospitalist at Carris Health – Rice Memorial Hospital, receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered Tuesday morning by nurse Nicole Aleshire in the Carris Health Lakeland Auditorium in Willmar. Hund was one of three frontline Carris Health workers to first receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune ST. PAUL — Five state lawmakers and three agency heads have been named to serve on a Minnesota working group charged with allocating $250 million to frontline workers that had to take leave for quarantining or illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.