Why has everyone forgotten essential workers? Especially health care workers?
Every day we risk our own health and our families to make sure our residents are being taken care of. Due to Covid-19, many of us have pulled 12-to-16-hour shifts because of a shortage of staff, and yet we still get nothing extra to thank us for putting our own lives on the line. People getting unemployment got more than some of us bring home working full-time with overtime.
Don’t get me wrong; I believe if you lost your job due to Covid, then, yes, you should get exactly what you were bringing home when you were working, but not the extra weekly benefits.
Why do employers have to apply for hazardous pay and then, if they get approved, not everyone gets it? Essential workers need to be honored and commended for risking their lives every day. Somehow we have been forgotten about, or did they even care at all, because any extra benefits to help us were the first things that were denied from the Hero Act.
We are all overworked and stressed out but still get up every day and go do the job that everyone forgot about being essential. Maybe if the laws that figure patient-to-staff ratio were actually looked at from a realistic point of view, then we could create more jobs for people not working.
Melissa Hawkins
Williamsport
