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This bill, the Hazard Pay for Essential Workers Act of 2020, would provide hazard pay to frontline essential workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The key provisions include: 1. Defining "essential work" and "essential workers" to include those in healthcare, first response, transportation, grocery, and other critical sectors who have regular in-person interactions with the public or handle items used by others. 2. Requiring essential work employers who receive grants from the newly established COVID-19 Hazard Fund to provide premium pay of $13 per hour to essential workers, up to $10,000 for regular essential workers and $5,000 for highly-compensated essential workers. 3. Prohibiting employers from reducing other compensation or displacing essential workers in order to pay the hazard pay. 4. Authorizing $180 billion in funding for the COVID-19 Hazard Fund to provide the grants to essential work employers. 5. Empowering the Department of Labor to enforce the hazard pay requirements and conduct outreach to workers and employers.

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