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City Managers Office <br />https://www.santa-ana.org/cm <br />Item # 30 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />March 2, 2021 <br />TOPIC: Premium Pay for Grocery Workers and Retail Pharmacy Workers <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Ordinance Establishing Premium Pay for Grocery Workers and Retail Pharmacy Workers <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Consider one of the following options: <br />1. Adopt an urgency ordinance establishing premium pay for grocery workers and retail <br />pharmacy workers. <br />2. Approve first reading of an ordinance establishing premium pay for grocery workers <br />and retail pharmacy workers. <br />DISCUSSION <br />COVID-19 Pandemic Timeline <br />On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus <br />(COVID-19) a pandemic. <br />On March 17 2020, the City Council proclaimed a civil emergency in response to the <br />COVID-19 pandemic, authorizing the City Manager to exercise the emergency powers <br />necessary to take extraordinary measures to prevent death or injury of persons and to <br />protect the public peace, safety and welfare, and alleviate damage, loss, hardship, or <br />suffering. <br />On March 19, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a Stay Home order, <br />closing all non-essential workplaces, requiring people to stay home except to participate <br />in essential activities or to provide essential business services, and banning all gatherings <br />for social, spiritual, and recreational purposes. In addition to healthcare, public health, <br />and emergency services, the Stay Home order identified grocery stores, among other <br />businesses/services, as essential business sectors critical to protecting the health and <br />well-being of all Californians and designated their workers as essential critical <br />infrastructure workers.