AZ HB2842

Requires health care employers with more than six employees to pay hazard pay equal to 5 percent premium above base pay to health care workers performing COVID-19 essential functions, with annual 5 percent increases for three years after enactment, excluding workers earning $125,000 or more annually.

Mandates health care employers provide new, unexpired personal protective equipment at no cost to health care workers and notify all employees of potential COVID-19 exposures on site.

Requires health care employers to provide at least three weeks of paid sick leave at regular pay rate to health care workers seeking COVID-19 diagnosis, ill with COVID-19, recovering from COVID-19, or in quarantine.

Prohibits retaliatory action against health care workers who refuse unsafe work in good faith or report health and safety violations to supervisors, public bodies, or media outlets.

Directs the state to arrange access to no-cost or low-cost hotel rooms near medical facilities for health care workers with direct COVID-19 contact or positive tests who do not require hospitalization.