SF supervisors approve $5 per hour hazard pay for grocery, drug store workers
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The San Francisco supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve an emergency ordinance to raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers as the COVID-19 pandemic endures.Diane Macdonald/Moment Editorial/Getty Images
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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.
Grocers sue Oakland over new $5-an-hour hazard pay mandate for supermarkets
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A Safeway store on College Ave. in Oakland. Safeway offered hazard pay at the beginning of the pandemic and then withdrew it. Oakland is now requiring large grocers to pay workers $5 an hour more as hazard pay.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
The California Grocers Association on Wednesday sued Oakland, just one day after the City Council voted to require larger food sellers to give workers a $5-an-hour pay increase as compensation for the added risks and stress of operating on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic.
The trade group, which represents most grocery stores in California, is seeking to have the new law declared invalid and unconstitutional.
Grocers sue Oakland over new $5-an-hour hazard pay mandate for supermarkets [San Francisco Chronicle]
Feb. 4 The California Grocers Association on Wednesday sued Oakland, just one day after the City Council voted to require larger food sellers to give workers a $5-an-hour pay increase as compensation for the added risks and stress of operating on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic.
The trade group, which represents most grocery stores in California, is seeking to have the new law declared invalid and unconstitutional.
The lawsuit and related cases elsewhere come as momentum is growing for hazard-pay premiums for supermarket workers during the pandemic.