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San Francisco: $5/hour COVID hazard pay for grocery, pharmacy workers
March 12, 2021
9:39 AM CDT
By Marilyn Bechtel
A grocery worker stocks produce before the opening of Gus's Community Market in San Francisco, March 2020. | Ben Margot / AP
San Francisco this week joined the growing number of Bay Area cities mandating hazard pay for grocery workers, when its Board of Supervisors on March 9 unanimously passed an emergency ordinance requiring large grocers and pharmacies to pay their workers an additional $5 per hour during the COVID-19 pandemic.