Senate Democrats propose $25,000 hazard-pay plan for essential workers

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14. It HAS to include us contracted healthcare workers

If they give the money ONLY to hospital systems, it goes only to direct employees. Travel healthcare workers are frontline, also. But we are employees of various travel HCW agencies. We take contracts around the country and work on the frontline but are NOT hospital employees so any money given to the facilities won’t make it to us travelers/contractors. There are travelers in the current hot spots but also those of us elsewhere..who are getting to see things like “that patient was sent to a regular floor but started to run a fever and has been transferred to the CoVid unit now for testing”. Sweet...so those of us in/out of his room before the transfer get to wait on his test results 😭?
Tweek the bill, please! Include contract HCW or risk leaving out many frontline healthcare workers.