hazard pay

More than 60% of voters in Maine’s most populous city last week approved an increase to its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024. The ballot question on Election Day also included a provision on providing hazard pay, which would provide time-and-a-half wages to hourly workers who are on the clock during a state of civil emergency like during…

More than 60% of voters in Portland, Maine last week approved a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour by 2024 as well as a hazard pay provision. With that provision, workers could make $18 an hour which some business owners say they can’t afford.

Voters in Portland, Maine, are deciding whether the city will enact a minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2024 and hazard pay at $22.50.

If voters in Portland, Maine, approve a ballot question on raising the city’s minimum wage, it could be increased to $15 an hour by 2024. The plan, which is being supported by an activist group called People First Portland, would also contain a provision for state of emergencies that essentially require hazard pay for anyone who has to work in…

Stop & Shop employees will be joined by Sen. Ed Markey Monday at a rally in Boston as they demand the company reinstitute hazard pay for its frontline workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Quincy-based grocery chain announced Saturday that the 10% increase in pay for union hourly store associates would end that day, according to a news release from…

Health care workers on the front lines of the coronvirus pandemic in Massachusetts will begin receiving hazard pay after their union reached a deal with the state Sunday night.