Chatham Area Transit employs “essential” workers.
They are the bus drivers, the men and women who keep the service operational, who during the scary early days of the COVID-19 pandemic put their health at risk by climbing behind the wheel and ferrying their neighbors, including frontline medical pros and first-responders, to and from work.
Judging by hazard pay bonuses, though, those drivers were less “essential” than CAT’s executives and administrative staff who kept working last spring and summer but could do so from home or in isolated workspaces.
Much less essential.
As Savannah Morning News Journalist Katie Nussbaum reports in a story published Thursday on SavannahNow.com, CAT records show office personnel saw hazard pay bonuses in excess of $9,000. Executives received an additional $20,000 or more in compensation.