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Our health care, janitorial, delivery, mail, transportation, farm, grocery, and domestic workers are on the front lines of this pandemic. @RoKhanna and I are urging Congress to enact needed protections for them in the next coronavirus relief package.
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Essential workers are working in high-risk conditions without appropriate equipment, safety standards, or job protections. Some reports indicate that they may be contracting COVID-19 at a higher rate than the general public.
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.@RoKhanna and I are proposing an Essential Workers Bill of Rights, focusing on ten key areas affecting frontline workers—including additional health and safety protections, robust premium pay, truly universal paid sick leave and family and medical leave, and more.
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Frontline workers – health care, transit, farm, grocery, domestic & delivery workers – are risking their lives to keep America running. We can’t rely on big business to protect them. So @RepRoKhanna & I are proposing an Essential Workers Bill of Rights to #ProtectEssentialWorkers
#1: Employers must be required to provide personal protective equipment at no cost to workers, including contractors & subcontractors. And they must have protocols for informing employees & evacuating & cleaning the site if there is COVID-19 exposure. #ProtectEssentialWorkers
#2: Every worker should be paid a livable wage, & essential employees are no exception. On top of that, they should be paid robust premium pay retroactive to the start date of the pandemic. And premium pay should be higher for the lowest-wage workers. #ProtectEssentialWorkers
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