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Vaccination Groups Expand in Pa & NY as COVID Cases Grow Getty Images jarun011 New York opens vaccines to people over the age of 16 April 6 while Pennsylvania is now opening Phase 1B of the vaccination plan.  That includes Postal Service Workers, people in congregate settings not otherwise covered, manufacturing workers, clergy and others essential for support for houses of worship, public transit workers and education workers.  Next Monday residents in Phase 1C will be eligible for appointments and April 19 all Pennsylvania residents will be able to schedule vaccination appointments. Mea...

San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance to temporarily raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers...

LOS ANGELES—The Kroger Co. announced March 10 that it's closing three Los Angeles stores following the city council's ...

During Mayor Eric Garcetti's COVID-19 briefing last week, he spoke about his support for the ordinance. "I absolutely 100% support the hero pay for our grocery workers, and with any good conscience, it shouldn't raise food prices because grocery stores are one area that have record profits, more money than they've had before,'' Garcetti said. "I hope they will see this and maybe be inspired by it instead of being threatened by it.'' The Board of Supervisors on Feb. 23 adopted an urgency ordinance to require $5 additional pay for national grocery and drug retail employers in unincorporated are...

While the original ordinance would have applied to employers with 500 or more employees nationwide, Councilwoman Diane Papan proposed raising the employee count to 750 or more so that smaller, independent employers would be excluded. The City Council voted 5-0 in favor of the amended ordinance, which would apply to 10 companies in the city such as Safeway, Target, Trader Joe's and Chavez Supermarket. Jennifer Chen, the city's economic development manager, said that Chavez Supermarket and Mollie Stone's Markets, both of which employ fewer than 1,000 employees nationwide, felt the most penalize...