MARTA turns to masks, sick pay as pandemic sickens workers
(World News USA)

MARTA has unveiled new protection and benefits for employees as the agency seeks to provide critical transit service amid the coronavirus outbreak. On Friday the agency expects to begin distributing 250,000 masks to employees who can’t work from home. And it will grant workers affected by COVID-19 up to 80 additional hours of emergency paid sick time. MARTA also plans to make more changes to its already scaled-back service. Though the agency has not announced details, it will focus its bus service on 39 of its 110 routes, with service as frequent as every five minutes during rush hour. The idea is to alleviate overcrowding that has made it difficult to sustain social-distancing...