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Kroger is closing 3 stores in LA after a new law mandated an extra $5 an hour for essential workers.
Kroger also closed stores in Seattle and Long Beach, California, following hazard pay laws.
Across the US, 134 grocery store workers have died and 28,700 have been infected due to COVID-19.
Kroger is closing three stores in Los Angeles after the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of a hazard pay law that mandates large corporations to pay an extra $5 per hour to frontline essential workers.
The store closures — one Ralphs and two Food 4 Less locations — will eliminate the jobs of 250 employees, CNN first reported. The company will work to reassign within the company the employees affected by the store closures.