Pierce County Council to consider requiring COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery workers
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 5/4/2021 Josephine Peterson, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
May 4 Grocery store workers in Pierce County cities and the unincorporated area could be in for a $4 per hour pay increase.
Pierce County Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a proposal to require hazard pay for grocery store workers.
The ordinance would require grocery stores to pay employees the additional $4 per hour to compensate for the health risks of working during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are asking them to keep us fed, bill co-sponsor Jani Hitchen (D-Parkland) told The News Tribune. We need them to show up every day and take care of themselves, and we need to avoid an outbreak at grocery stores. They never had the opportunity to work from home or shut down, and they have never had the opportunity to feel safe.
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City Attorney Jeff Taraday, bottom row-far left, discusses the proposed ordinance for grocery workers’ hazard pay during Tuesday’s Edmonds City Council meeting.
The Edmonds City Council Tuesday night approved Mayor Mike Nelson’s proposal to require Edmonds grocery stores to provide an extra $4 an hour in hazard pay for their employees. The measure which applies to Edmonds grocers who employee 500 or more workers statewide was originally proposed as an emergency ordinance, meaning it would have been effective within days if approved by a supermajority of five or more councilmembers. In the end, the vote was 4-1, with two abstentions, so the measure will go into effect in 30 days.
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Washington’s plastic bag ban on hold during COVID-19
The state Legislature passed the ban on single-use plastic bags with bipartisan support in 2020, but the pandemic has delayed its implementation.
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Glen Quadros, owner of the Great American Diner & Bar, hands over a takeout food order, packaged in compostable containers placed inside a plastic bag, to a waiting customer in Seattle on March 31, 2020. Washington state has delayed a plastic bag ban because of the pandemic. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
On March 9, 2020, 33 state senators voted to pass Senate Bill 5323, making Washington the ninth state to ban single-use plastic bags. Two days later, the World Health Organization classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. Along with in-person gatherings, the statewide plastic bag ban became an early victim of the pandemic.