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This bill, the Health Care Workers Recognition and Retention Act, requires covered employers (healthcare providers with 100 or more employees and certain contractors) to pay hazard pay retention bonuses to covered healthcare workers (those who provided direct patient care or support services in 2020, 2021, and 2022) on specific dates in 2022. The bonuses range from $1,000 to $2,500 depending on the worker's employment status. The bill prohibits employers from reducing workers' compensation or hours to avoid paying the bonuses and allows employers to reduce the bonuses by any COVID-19-related hazard pay or bonuses already paid. The bill also allows employers to seek exemptions from the requirements based on inability to pay and authorizes the creation of a fund to provide grants for bonuses to healthcare workers not covered by the bill.

Budget and Finance, Labor and Employment

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