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Kroger closes grocery stores to avoid COVID hazard pay for workers March 11, 2021 1:06 PM CDT By Special to People’s World
Shoppers load items in their vehicle outside a Food 4 Less store in Long Beach, Calif., which will permanently close April 17, 2021. Kroger, the company which owns Ralphs and Food 4 Less, announced Monday the company will close a Ralphs and a Food 4 Less in Long Beach in response to the City Council s decision to mandate extra Hero Pay for grocery workers amid the pandemic. | Ringo Chiu via AP
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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.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance to temporarily raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton, the emergency ordinance calling for the additional hazard pay is urgently needed to further support the city s essential workers, who are at higher risk of contracting the virus as they can t work from home and often work indoors and serve a variety of customers on a daily basis. Our essential grocery workers are often paid minimum wage and are expected to take high risks by constant exposure to the public. While we have protocols in place to wear a mask, stay 6-feet apart, and stay home if you re sick, we know these protocols are not always followed by the public, Walton said in a statement. This emergency ordinance compensates grocery workers and drug store workers who have had heightened exposure throughout th
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance to temporarily raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers.