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8.A. - Page 15 of 21 <br />nationally and at least 15 locally) pay workers an additional $4 per hour "hero pay" for at <br />least 120 days. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia signed the ordinance last week and the <br />city council will take a final vote on February 2. <br />The Long Beach ordinance has already been replicated in more than half a dozen cities, <br />including: <br />• Santa Monica, Calif: On January 12, the Santa Monica city council approved 5 per <br />hour "hero pay" for grocery workers at large employers. <br />• Seattle: On January 25, the Seattle City Council unanimously_ passed a similar <br />mandate—citing our research requiring certain large grocery and food retail <br />businesses with at least 500 employees globally to pay $4 per hour hazard pay for <br />grocery workers. <br />• Los Angeles County: On January 5, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors <br />voted to draft a mandate—also citing our research—requiring large grocery and <br />drugstore chains to provide workers a $5 per hour pay increase for at least 120 days. <br />• San Francisco: Earlier this month, San Francisco passed a nonbinding ordinance <br />urging companies to pay hazard pay. <br />• San Jose, Berkeley_, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Santa Clara, and <br />San Mateo: Several other California cities are also considering mandates. <br />The new hazard pay ordinances in California and Seattle are unique because they are <br />among the first to be government -mandated, rather than government -funded or <br />voluntarily employer-provided. They follow a novel hazard pay ordinance passed by <br />Seattle's city council in June requiring gig platform companies that deliver food and <br />groceries to provide premium pay to workers. <br />The new ordinances help fill the void left by nonexistent government -funded hazard pay <br />and inadequate or lapsed employer-provided hazard pay. Despite early political <br />momentum and a clear rationale to do so, the U.S. Congress has not passed any <br />government -funded hazard pay for frontline workers during the pandemic. While a few <br />states—including Pennsylvania and Vermont—creatively leveraged federal CARES Act <br />funding to introduce state -level hazard pay_programs, it is unlikely that these programs <br />57 <br />