In light of the COVID-19 outbreak leading to service industry closures across the country, Chilled will keep the bartending community up-to-date on information about financial and medical assistance being made available.
We will list emergency funding and relief offered to bartenders and bar owners during these trying times, as soon as the information is presented.
Aid For Bartenders During Bar Closures for COVID-19
The United States Bartenders Guild has set up a National Charity to offer emergency relief to help bartenders. To qualify for relief from the USBG National Charity Foundation, applicants do not have to be a USBG member to apply for the grants, but they do need to be a bartender experiencing emergency hardship. The USBG is also currently collecting donations. To donate, click here, and if you are a bartender seeking assistance, click here.
For those affected in the foodservice industry, the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation is also creating a Restaurant Workers’ COVID19 Crisis Relief Fund as well as a Resource Page to provide information on how to receive assistance or to find ways to assist.
Chilled has been working over the past two years to provide affordable health insurance coverage to our Chilled 100 members. To help bartenders facing hardship during this crisis, at this time, we will be opening this assistance to all bartenders. Stay tuned for additional information.
In the state of California, “If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim,” the EDD says on its website. “UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced, through no fault of their own. Workers who are temporarily unemployed due to COVID-19 and expected to return to work with their employer within a few weeks are not required to seek work each week.”
We remain hopeful that this health situation will come under control and that bartenders will be able to return to work, and we can all gather once again as a community and find a new normal. We will continue to update this post as information becomes available.
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