PBP calls for reward payment for frontline staff

Essential and front-line workers, who have continued to work throughout the Covid-19 outbreak, should be given a reward payment by government, according to people Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett

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Essential and front-line workers, who have continued to work throughout the Covid-19 outbreak, should be given a reward payment by government.

That is according to People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett, with the party set to include the idea in emergency legislation due before the Dáil tomorrow.