Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: The New York state Labor Department is giving essential workers $4,800 in hazard pay.

Q1: What is US hazard pay?
A1: Hazardous Duty Differential is additional compensation paid to employees who are exposed to high-risk working conditions in certain agency/facility locations for which they are not otherwise compensated

Q2: Where have requests for hazard pay been reported?
A2: Some New York residents and fellows want hazard pay, more support.

By Mark Chiusano
Mark.Chiusano@newsday.commjchiusano
April 15, 2020

Q3: What happens when the link on the social posts with the claim that The New York state Labor Department is giving essential workers $4,800 in hazard pay is activated?
A3: A picture of a gorilla giving the camera a finger is received.

Q4: How does the US Dept of Labor define hazard pay?
A4: The U.S. Department of Labor defines hazardous work as “[w]ork duty that causes extreme physical discomfort and distress which is not adequately alleviated by protective devices [and] is deemed to impose a physical hardship.”[Hazard pay is also forward looking pay that provides additional compensation in advance to mitigate the impacts of potential future harm.

Q5: What authority is responsible for authorising hazard pay?
A5: The U.S. Department of Labor does not currently regulate hazard pay and does not require that employers provide hazard pay. An employee is only entitled to hazard pay either through an employment agreement, or in specific instances, where provided by statute.

Q6: Who typically receives hazard pay?
A6: Federal statutes establish hazard pay for government employees whose duty involves “unusual physical hardship or hazard, and for any hardship or hazard related to asbestos” in an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the employee’s basic pay. However, in order to be entitled to the hazard pay incentive, the employee’s work must not be “in a position the classification of which takes into account the degree of physical hardship or hazard involved in the performance of the duties.” Workers whose positions are already known to be hazardous would not receive additional hazard pay.  The hazard entitling a federal worker to additional compensation must therefore be outside the hazards normally encompassed by the worker’s job description.

Q7: Did the parameters change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
A7: With respect to COVID-19, federal employees whose job it is to work with deadly infectious diseases on a regular basis would likely not receive hazard pay under the statute.
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justification: The New York state Labor Department is not in charge of giving hazard pay 

verdict: 'Refuted'
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