Provide hazard pay and safety support for health care workers

Summer Lee introduced legislation directing the Department of Health and Human Services to issue grants for hazard pay of up to $13 per hour or $25,000 per year. The proposal also calls for safety measures, including personal protective equipment and alternative transit, for essential health care and support-service workers providing immediate or uninterrupted medical assistance during emergencies and extreme-weather disasters.

Context: The described eligibility covers essential workers in health care and supporting services who provide patients with immediate or undisrupted medical assistance during emergencies and extreme weather disasters.

In their own words

to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue grants related to a hazard pay of up to $13 per hour / $25,000 per year

The source

Issues | Summer Lee For Congress

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