Recto said janitors, security guards and maintenance men working in public hospitals should also receive hazard pay from the government as they face similar health risks as medical frontliners amid the pandemic. | CMRamosINQ
“A cross-subsidy is allowed under the law,” the senator said, pointing out that the government has given “tens of billions” of cash aid to “people who are just staying in their homes.”
Recto noted that janitors, security guards, as well as maintenance personnel are not entitled to hazard pay despite facing the same risks as health care workers because of their status as private service providers.“They are unheralded, but they’re important cogs that keep hospitals running,” he said.
Most of these workers “quietly toil on minimum pay,” Recto said, noting that workers deployed by private contractors in public hospitals “are caught in a limbo.”“They are low paid but are still classified as employed—thus disqualifying them for emergency government aid for the jobless. And because they’re private employees, they’re not entitled to hazard pay given to state workers,” he said.
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