Do you get covid pay?

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Do you get covid pay, if you are a part time employee? I need to be off from work, because of contracting covid from my workplace ; and I got denied covid pay because I am not full time.Can they legally do that?

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Specializes in Ortho/trauma acute care/med surg.

What state do you work in? I think here in California they give you the amount of hours in covid pay that you work on a weekly basis, if you work 24 hours a week then you are given 48 hours or two weeks pay to recover. 

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I’m an LPN in a physician’s office who has been pulled to help in the hospital (I have zero hospital experience!). There’s supposed to be a $5.00/hour deployment differential BUT there’s apparently been issues with some of us getting that pay. I’ll let you know if I get it. 

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????? Oh God COVID pay, too funny. 

My hospital did manage to pay us a bonus if... IF we sign up to work extra shift. The bonus is an addition to overtime pay. So you can call that covid pay, I guess

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Specializes in mental health / psychiatic nursing.

Really depends on your specific contract and the employment laws where you work. We don't have any COVID pay/differential where I work. Case counts at my hospital have been, and remain low - those who work on our (2) COVID/PUI units volunteered to do so. 

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

We get paid if we are out for testing - no extra pay for taking care of patients with Covid.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

We got COVID pay back in March. Those who had direct contact with COVID patients received more, but then everyone else at the hospital I worked at received extra pay as well. It lasted up until June or July I think. Then the numbers went down then we had less COVID units. But back in November we opened up more COVID units and did not get COVID pay anymore.

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Specializes in New Critical care NP, Critical care, Med-surg, LTC.

I think we all got a $200 one-time bonus back in June. I'd rather get nothing than hear about how the hospital was so "generous". 

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Specializes in Mental health, substance abuse, geriatrics, PCU.

We get a differential of a couple dollars that pay roll sometimes remembers to add on. People have had a lot of difficulty getting it added to their checks for some reason. The differential is a nice gesture, but similar to JBM's experience, management likes to throw it in our faces whenever someone drops dead of exhaustion, that our "heroic" work is being rewarded. ?

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