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Board advances multiple measures to protect grocery, delivery, janitorial and transit workers during COVID‑19
Summary
Supervisors introduced and supported legislation and resolutions to require employers in grocery, pharmacy and on‑demand delivery to provide protective equipment, to prohibit retaliation for safety requests, to reimburse delivery workers for protective supplies and downtime, and to urge SFMTA and transit unions to protect operators.
Multiple supervisors presented separate but related worker protection measures at the April 7 board meeting aimed at frontline employees still required to work during the COVID‑19 emergency.
Supervisor Matt Haney introduced an emergency ordinance to increase protections for grocery store, drugstore, restaurant and on‑demand delivery workers. The ordinance would require employers to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves and sanitizer; reimburse on‑demand delivery workers for purchases of PPE; pay delivery workers for time spent cleaning vehicles or traveling to…
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