Hazard pay

Hazard pay or danger money (British English)[1] is income in addition to regular wages given for performing work under hazardous or dangerous conditions. Hazardous work means that use of reasonable protective gear does not adequately mitigate the inherent risks involved in the work, wherein harm or death could result.[2]

Current Examples

In Detroit, Michigan the municipal government is paying certain public employees an additional amount of $800 per month to perform their jobs during the Coronavirus outbreak.[3]

In the United States a group of Federal employees from various agencies has filed a lawsuit[4] to force the government to pay hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

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gollark: Who says there'd be home quantum computing at all? The trend is to encloud everything.
gollark: Mostly for machine learning hardware since the matrix multiplication computations have a very regular pattern, I think.
gollark: Oh yes, optical computing is being used a bit now.
gollark: Hundreds of GHz with the minor downside of requiring cryogenic cooling.

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