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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will push to include a new
hazard pay program for frontline workers in the coronavirus pandemic in the next
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legislative vehicle that passes Congress in response to the crisis.
"We are asking these workers to take great risks and we should reward them for it,"
Schumer told reporters Tuesday on a conference call.
The Democratic proposal has two main components: up to a $25,000 pay increase for
essential workers, and a one-time $15,000 incentive to help recruit new health care
workers during the pandemic.
The pay increase is the equivalent of a $13 per hour pay raise, that would be
retroactive to the start of the crisis and authorized through Dec. 31, 2020. It would
apply to workers earning less than $200,000 annually, but workers who make more
than that would still be entitled to up to $5,000 in hazard pay. It would apply to vast
swaths of the workforce, including health care workers, postal workers, transit
workers and airport workers. It would not apply to employees who are working from
home. The one-time $15,000 recruitment incentive would be more limited, and
focused on health care workers that are experiencing shortages such as home care
workers and first responders.
Democrats say the federal government would guarantee the money, but their proposal
does not include details on the cost, or the specific mechanism for how to deliver this
pay to workers. There are no Republican cosponsors of this proposal — a signal that it
is unlikely to garner much bipartisan support in the GOP controlled Senate. Schumer
declined to comment when asked if Democrats would block coronavirus-related
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