02-04-2021, 04:21 AM
......don't want to pay extra $4/hr......
Kroger shutting stores to avoid giving workers "hazard pay"
.....Kroger is closing two stores in California rather than pay grocery workers an extra four dollars an hour for working at the nation's largest supermarket chain during the coronavirus pandemic. The company blamed a decision by local officials who recently approved a temporary wage increase for some supermarket employees.
Kroger said it will close the stores, a Ralphs and a Food 4 Less, in April because of the law, passed in January by the Long Beach city council. With a handful of cities across California weighing whether to mandate "hazard pay" for grocery workers, Kroger also warned that it could shut more stores.
Long Beach last month became the first city in California to approve a hazard pay ordinance, with the law requiring grocery stores with at least 300 workers nationwide and more than 15 employees within Long Beach to pay an extra $4 an hour for a 120-day period.
Research has found that frontline employees face higher risks of coronavirus exposure at work. Such workers are also more likely to be Black, Hispanic or Native American, populations that have suffered higher rates of COVID-19.
As hazard pay for many grocery workers has lapsed, they continue to face risk on the job, with the pandemic still rampaging and as some patrons continue to disregard safety mandates like wearing a face mask. At least 134 grocery workers have died of COVID-19, and more than 28,700 have been exposed to a positive case, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers, a union that represents 1.3 million workers including 55,000 at Kroger........
no hazard pay......for you.....and you......?!
Kroger shutting stores to avoid giving workers "hazard pay"
.....Kroger is closing two stores in California rather than pay grocery workers an extra four dollars an hour for working at the nation's largest supermarket chain during the coronavirus pandemic. The company blamed a decision by local officials who recently approved a temporary wage increase for some supermarket employees.
Kroger said it will close the stores, a Ralphs and a Food 4 Less, in April because of the law, passed in January by the Long Beach city council. With a handful of cities across California weighing whether to mandate "hazard pay" for grocery workers, Kroger also warned that it could shut more stores.
Long Beach last month became the first city in California to approve a hazard pay ordinance, with the law requiring grocery stores with at least 300 workers nationwide and more than 15 employees within Long Beach to pay an extra $4 an hour for a 120-day period.
Research has found that frontline employees face higher risks of coronavirus exposure at work. Such workers are also more likely to be Black, Hispanic or Native American, populations that have suffered higher rates of COVID-19.
As hazard pay for many grocery workers has lapsed, they continue to face risk on the job, with the pandemic still rampaging and as some patrons continue to disregard safety mandates like wearing a face mask. At least 134 grocery workers have died of COVID-19, and more than 28,700 have been exposed to a positive case, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers, a union that represents 1.3 million workers including 55,000 at Kroger........
no hazard pay......for you.....and you......?!
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