Workers at DOL, Other Agencies Join Covid-19 Hazard Pay Lawsuit

A group of workers at the Department of Labor, Social Security Administration, Federal Grain Inspection Service, and parts of the departments of Defense and Homeland Security is seeking hazard pay, asserting in a newly amended lawsuit that their jobs put them at risk for contracting Covid-19.

The plaintiffs, since Jan. 27, “have performed work with or in close proximity to objects, surfaces, and/or individuals infected with the novel coronavirus,” according to their amended complaint filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The General Schedule pay system provides for a 25% hazard pay differential when federal workers’ jobs put them ...