The Los Angeles Angels are committing $1.2 million to cover more than 1,800 people who work at their stadium. The money, issued through a one-time grant, will provide financial assistance to a wide range of employees, including third-party vendors, and will be distributed in a sliding scale based on factors like job title, pay rate and hours worked.
The announcement stems from a mid-March announcement that all major league teams would commit $1 million to ballpark employees who were suddenly left without work because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Angels increased their commitment by 20 percent and began distributing the money this week because their workers would have received their first paycheck on Thursday, had baseball's regular season played out as planned.