Essential Workers Deserve Hazard Pay

Essential Workers Deserve Hazard Pay – And NJ Has The Cash

NEW JERSEY — It is nice when someone calls you a "hero." But that does not put food on the table for your family, these New Jersey advocates ...

Essential Workers Deserve Hazard Pay – And NJ Has The Cash

Advocates are asking for a $1,000 payout to eligible full-time workers and $500 for part-time workers who punched a clock during the pandemic.

Dozens of Essential Workers Delivered a Letter to NJ Legislators to ...

Essential workers deserve recognition, yet thus far they have been overlooked in New Jersey despite the $6.2 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds ...

Hazard pay for essential workers now | Opinion - NJ.com

The federal government recognized this need in the American Rescue Plan, whose state and local recovery funds specifically mention hazard and ...

NJ Unions Hit the Bricks for Hazard Pay - HPAE

Puerto Rico allocated $200 million to provide $2,000 payments to essential workers. Connecticut has approved $65 million in hazard pay: $30 ...

Hero Hazard Pay Languishes under the Self-Dealing Gold Dome

The state AFL-CIO's modest proposal requires the hazard pay be limited to workers who were in the 1a or 1b vaccine eligibility groups, have performed at least ...

All frontline workers would get hazard pay under NJ Rep's bill

A New Jersey Congressional representative is proposing federal legislation to ensure they are financially rewarded for their service, with an ...

The COVID-19 hazard continues, but the hazard pay does not

Hazard pay is one way to immediately correct the financial injustice for frontline essential workers who risk their lives—and their families' ...

Essential county workers should be getting hazard pay | Opinion

Therefore, if your county has already received its share of the CARES Act funding, the money is there and your union Local should be seeking the ...

The Struggling Workers the Powerful Ignore - Insider NJ

No hazard pay for the state's lowest paid essential workers says something about the invisibility of this cohort of workers.

NYC essential workers demand hazard pay at hometown heroes ...

He went on to say that here we have New York City, where the government received billions in federal aide, money didn't make its way to ...

Hazard Pay - Support Essential Workers on Change.org

Join the movement to ensure frontline workers receive the support and recognition they deserve. Report issues. What do you want to see change? Start ...

What Is Hazard Pay? Do Essential Service Workers Qualify?

During COVID-19, many still work on-site and may be entitled to hazard pay. Find out what hazard pay is and if you qualify for it here.

ShopRite agrees to COVID hazard pay for this past summer

ShopRite employees in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut will receive hazard pay for work they did during the pandemic last summer after ...

Hazard Pay: What Is It and Who Can Get It? - FindLaw

Hazard pay can also apply to frontline workers during pandemics or natural disasters temporarily. For example, during the coronavirus pandemic, ...

Hazard Pay is an Authorized Use of CARES Act Funding

As many of you are aware by now, State and Local Governments across the country have split $150 billion in Federal aid under a provision of ...

COVID-19's essential workers deserve hazard pay. Here's why ...

In their proposal for a COVID-19 “Heroes Fund,” Senate Democrats have suggested essential workers receive an additional $25,000 for work through ...

Dems' Hazard Pay Proposals Are a Recipe for a Lot Fewer Essential ...

This week, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D–N.J.) introduced the Essential Pay for Essential Workers Act, which would guarantee essential workers ...

Cuomo: Essential workers should get hazard pay | FOX 5 New York

Cuomo suggested that the federal government fund hazard pay for health care workers, public safety workers, transit workers, ...

NJ labor rights groups push for hazard pay for COVID-19 essential ...

Several of the state's labor unions and worker's rights groups are demanding businesses be required to issue hazard pay and other benefits for ...