HONOLULU (KHON2) — Leaders at the United Public Workers union are calling it a win. An arbitrator recently ruled its essential workers will be given hazard pay for their work during the pandemic. Get ...

Lots of people are still showing up to work every day during the virus crisis, putting themselves at risk. Some are asking whether they should be getting hazard pay. NBC Universal, Inc. From doctors ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats are proposing to give doctors, nurses and other essential workers, such as grocery store clerks, up to $25,000 in hazard pay as part ...

The Honolulu City Council plans to earmark $27 million in federal funds to repay eligible, unionized city workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years Hawaii’s government worker ...

Hawaii is set to join a growing number of states in recognizing the dedication of its in-person state employees during the COVID-19 crisis by offering hazard pay, nearly a year after the U.S.

A group of nonprofit coalitions has joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other elected officials in calling on the federal government to provide bonus pay of 50% to workers designated as essential during the ...

Feds are included in the proposed premium pay increase that would float $13 dollars per hour into the paychecks of frontline workers. Senate Democrats are introducing legislation aimed at giving ...

Newly-classified "essential workers" talk risking their lives for minimum wage. David Williams described his wife of 19 years, Vitalina, as "the most wonderful lady on the face of the planet." "Me ...