DETROIT — Senator Gary Peters proposed legislation to provide heroes pay to essential workers and healthcare workers will add $13 an hour on top of their pay.
According to Peters, the legislation would help create the COVID-19 “Heroes Fund”. He says essential frontline workers would receive an extra $13 per hour for up to $25,000 through the rest of 2020.
“To me, these folks deserve more than our thanks, they do deserve hazard pay,” said Peters during a Senators’ Town Hall Thursday that included Senator Debbie Stabenow.
The fund would also include a recruitment incentive of $15,000 "for first responders, health and home care workers to attract the workforce needed to fight this public health crisis."
"Both public and private sector workers would be eligible including health care professionals, workers at grocery stores, postal workers, home care workers, pharmacists, first responders and other essential workers," according to his office.
The extra hourly pay of $13 would be backdated to January 27th. That's when the federal government declared a public health emergency.
"The proposal would be federally-funded, and would give funds directly to eligible employers that apply to the Heroes Fund to increase their employees’ paychecks. No employer would be required to participate, but would be strongly encouraged to apply," according to his office.
To read the full proposal, click here.
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— Sinkrate Sue (@suevisa) April 16, 2020
So they are planning on giving all the front line people money from the hero fund. And never heard anything about auto techs still working thru this. Do we get forgotten. We also keep america rolling in these times yet we take our pay cut and get nothing for it. I feel shorted
— John Rot (@JohnRot2) April 16, 2020
