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The share of Americans earning less than $15 an hour has fallen since the idea of a $15 minimum wage was introduced in 2012. But the people still earning under $15 are more likely to be Black or Hispanic women, a new Washington Post analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. In 2014, a few years after the Fight for 15 campaign began, 61 million people earned under $15 an hour, the Post said. In 2019, only 39 million people earned less than $15, representing 28% of the workforce. But nearly half of Hispanic women and almost 40 percent of Black women were still earning less than $15 an...

Hero Pay for Grocery Workers, Pharmacy Workers Takes Effect in Santa Ana Grocery workers and retail pharmacy workers in Santa Ana, Calif., will begin receiving an hourly pay boost after city council passed an urgency ordinance to implement “hero pay”. The measure, which passed with a 5-2 vote during a March 2 council meeting, takes effect immediately. Eligible workers will receive an extra $4 per hour. Under the new law, stores with grocery sections 10,000 square feet or larger—such as those found in Target or Walmart—will be included. Councilmember Jonathan Ryan Hernandez voted in...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. While significant ink was spilled last summer evaluating whether Congress would pass the HEROES Act – House Democrats' $3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the federal government was ultimately unable to implement an aid package that included, among other provisions, mandated “hazard pay” for essential workers.  In response, several local and municipal governments have taken up the call and have recently implemented laws to require additional wage premiums for employees in the grocery ...

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...

Costa Mesa Becomes Latest City to Explore Pay Raise for Grocery Workers Costa Mesa is considering boosting the hourly wages of grocery workers during the pandemic, joining a shopping list of other Orange County cities exploring the initiative. Its city council will discuss an urgency ordinance March 2 to pay certain grocery workers an extra $4 per hour in “hazard pay.” “Grocery workers generally receive lower wages than other professions deemed essential during the pandemic such as doctors,” says a city report. “There is a need to incentivize experienced grocery workers to remain em...