Extra payments to essential workers: the Californian city of Oxnard will offer $ 1,000 to those who have worked outside the home for at least 3 months in a pandemic

About 1, 700 workers will receive the “gratitude payment,” reported the United Food and Commercial Workers

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Despite the fact that various companies promised to provide extra essential payments to the workers who have been most exposed during the pandemic, the reality is that this has not been fulfilled by a good sector of employers. In general, have resisted raising wages of this workforce mostly of low wages .

This situation has put the Oxnard, California government on alert, which is looking for ways to counteract this trend. So the local government is disbursing a $ 1 bond, 000 to each essential worker who was employed for at least three months during the health crisis.

According to a report by CBS, about 1, 700 workers will receive the “gratitude payment,” reported the United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents some 450 affected workers.

This movement that the local government is making has to do with the enormous dissatisfaction of the workers that throughout the Covid pandemic – 10 have taken a direct risk by being frontline employees without receiving any gratification for said situation .

Since the pandemic began, at least two dozen California cities have passed local laws that require companies to give their front-line workers “hazard pay” increases during the pandemic, especially for the Dangerousness of the virus.

In the case of Oxnard, it will not require employers to contribute their own funds. Instead, the city is allocating about $ 2.5 million of federal funds of the American Recovery Plan to bonuses.

According to the report, do Using federal money means workers could get funds faster and protect Oxnard from employer lawsuits that typically accompany city-required increases in the minimum wage.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that the Oxnard government voted unanimously in favor of the plan. The only Republican on the council said he was comfortable with the increases because they would come from federal funds .

The movement in the small Californian town has already begun to have resonance in other states, as Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has proposed to allocate $ 22 .5 million in federal bonus funds for nursing home employees and frontline state employees.

Restaurant and fast food workers in the state are also asking for a part of the funds, considering that they are also exposing themselves too much by having daily contact with various citizens when carrying out their work activities.

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