‘We’re Risking Our Lives’: Front-Line Federal Workers Sue For Hazard Pay

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Kareen Troy Troitino, a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution, stands outside the Miami facility in April.





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Burakiewicz is concerned about employees who have been working from home and who may soon be called back into the office unnecessarily, she says, exposing the workers already there.

In Miami, Troitino says the average correctional worker makes $600 a week working in a dangerous environment that, he says, has become more dangerous. «It’s an enormous hazard. And we’re risking our lives not just to put food on the table for our families but also to protect society. And it seems like no one, no one cares.

The government has until next month to respond to the lawsuit.