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Statesboro awards city employees $500 each in pandemic hazard pay

Statesboro City Manager Charles W. Penny, right, is interviewed by Georgia Southern University multimedia journalism student Shelton Jackson, who also had some questions about the pandemic hazard pay. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

penny hazard pay — Statesboro City Manager Charles W. Penny, right, is interviewed by Georgia Southern University multimedia journalism student Shelton Jackson, who also had some questions about the pandemic hazard pay. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

Statesboro’s city government is awarding each of its nearly 300 employees $500 in one-time “pandemic hazard pay,” using roughly $150,000 from the $1.7 million in federal CARES Act funding the city previously received.

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