Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers

[babylonsister]

Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
Becky Dernbach


As the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic closes schools across the country, more and more parents are juggling working from home with caring full-time for their children. But working from home isn’t possible for emergency personnel like paramedics, nurses, and public health workers who are on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Some states and cities are providing child care for emergency workers so they can do their jobs.

Minnesota and Vermont have now officially designated another group of workers as emergency personnel: grocery clerks. This means the workers hurrying to stock shelves and check out customers in those states will also receive free child care.

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https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/minnesota-and-vermont-just-classified-grocery-clerks-as-emergency-workers/

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[uponit7771]

2. America's support infrastructure isn't made for idiots like Trump to run any parts of it.

[liberalmuse]

3. They need to get hazard pay ASAP.

And when this is all over, we should all fight for a minimum wage that is a living wage.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. In my part of MN, the grocers are all paying $2/hour above contract and in some cases paying

double time for OT instead of time and a half.

[liberalmuse]

8. That's great!

I hope every state adopts this.

[Mister Ed]

4. I'm damn proud of our MN Gov. Tim Walz (D, of course). n/t

[Journeyman]

6. Is this group child care, or individual care in your home or at another's home? . . .

Any one of these solutions sounds somewhat dicey.

[LizBeth]

7. That is so good. I did the job about 3 mo and for real, the bodily fluids they come in contact with

I so agree with this.

[rownesheck]

9. The company I work for

just bumped all hourly worker pay by $2 per hour through the end of April. Store managers will get a lump sum of $1000. That free child care sounds nice, though.