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Board expands emergency paid‑leave protections to health‑care workers, adopts ordinance
Summary
An emergency ordinance expanding public health emergency leave to private employees — including specified protections for health‑care workers — passed unanimously after technical amendments clarifying eligibility and payout sequencing.
The Board of Supervisors on April 14 adopted an amended emergency ordinance creating public health emergency leave for private sector workers during the COVID‑19 emergency and expanding coverage to certain health‑care providers who had been exempted in earlier federal and local rules.
Supervisor Mar introduced the ordinance and explained that public health emergency leave is a distinct leave category (not merely paid sick leave) that allows workers…
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