Hazard Pay - a podcast by WHRO Public Media

Welcome to a Strome Business Minute, presented by the Strome College of Business. Kroger joined Target and Starbucks in ending its two dollar an hour hero pay to workers for hazardous duty due to the Corona virus. Kroger employees responded by protesting across Virginia, holding drive-through rallies and standing outside stores with signs calling for return of the hero pay. Target and Starbucks employees, though, haven’t protested. Starbucks sales are expected to be down some three billion dollars so maybe their employees were cutting them some slack. Meanwhile Dollar Tree announced last week that it is extending its hero pay at least through the end of June. Like the others, Dollar Tree’s hero pay is two dollars per hour, and the company estimates that the total additional cost will be about fifteen million dollars, having already spent about one hundred and five million on hero pay so far. To learn more, visit odu.edu/business. This Strome Business Minute is presented by the Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University.

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