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Most companies haven t given essential workers pandemic hazard pay. One city is changing that. By Irina Ivanova Frontline workers mental health struggles
Although large employers have sung the praises of the retail, grocery, health care, delivery and other workers deemed essential during the pandemic, they ve generally resisted raising the pay of this mostly low-wage workforce.
Oxnard, California, is trying to buck that trend. The city of 200,000 is giving a $1,000 bonus to every essential worker who was employed at least three months during the heath crisis. About 1,700 workers will receive the gratitude pay, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, which represents about 450 affected workers.
Edwards signs income tax exemption for most COVID-19 relief
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law an exemption from state income taxes for most COVID-19-related aid programs.
Senate Bill 11 by Rep. Kirk Talbot, a River Ridge Republican, now Act 54, applies to individuals and businesses. It does not apply to unemployment benefits, which the federal government has enhanced during the pandemic.
The bill defines “COVID-19 relief benefit” as “any gratuitous grant, loan, rebate, tax credit, advance refund, or other qualified disaster relief benefit directly or indirectly provided to a taxpayer by the state or federal government,” and includes any potential relief legislation yet to be passed. Examples include the state’s Main Street Recovery Program and Critical Infrastructure Worker’s Hazard Pay Rebate.