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- ADVERTISEMENT - Now, as the city faces a pending legal battle, it has become a litmus test for other cities and municipalities like Santa Monica, Los Angeles and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, which are all considering similar local laws but have yet to go as far as Long Beach. “There are other cities looking at ‘Hero Pay’ but Long Beach as far as I know is the first to pass an ordinance,” said City Attorney Charles Parkin on Monday. Parkin said the city anticipated legal challenges, but its City Council, which unanimously passed the ordinance last week, has indicated that i...

Long Beach approves $4 per hour 'hero pay' for grocery store workers KABC Share: LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Workers at large grocery stores in Long Beach can now get an extra $4 an hour in hazard pay due to the coronavirus pandemic. The city council unanimously approved the wage increase at Tuesday's meeting. The ordinance was tentatively approved, and a final vote is scheduled for Feb. 2. "Taking a moment in-between watching inaugural events to sign a $4 an hour pay increase for grocery and supermarket workers. You have earned this hero pay. Thank you for your hard work," Mayor Robert Garc...

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-a...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 5, 2021, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors considered an urgency ordinance requiring grocery stores to pay workers an additional $5/hour as “Hero Pay” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Supervisors Hilda Solis and Holly Mitchell put forth the motion and noted that “as the County experiences a record-breaking wave of COVID-19 cases, grocery retailers have experienced an increase in outbreaks with nearly 500 businesses currently under investigation in the County alone. The inability to practice social distancin...

On December 14, several Denver area grocery stores displayed unusual light shows — but the businesses weren't responsible for them. UFCW Local 7, whose members include many of those working at major supermarkets, projected images (some featuring Dr. Seuss's Grinch character) calling for a return of so-called "hero" pay — a $2-per-hour bump given to employees during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic because of the risks they took to serve the greater public — on King Soopers and Safeway outlets. The projections were part of a two-pronged attack, and followed a letter to Kroger, ow...