California Grocery Worker’s Widow Says Employer Opposed COVID-19 Masks, Gloves

Mealey's (June 23, 2020, 10:35 AM EDT) -- ALAMEDA, Calif. — The widow of a Safeway grocery chain employee who died from COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, sued the chain and its parent company in a California court on May 13, alleging that the defendants advised its workforce not to wear masks and gloves to protect themselves from infection (Norma Zuniga v. Safeway Inc., et al., No. HG20062742, Calif. Super., Alameda Co.)....