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Board approves ordinance guaranteeing six weeks of full pay for new parents, with phased implementation and enforcement path
Summary
San Francisco supervisors on April 5 voted to adopt an ordinance requiring covered employers to provide six weeks of full wage replacement for new parents, making the city the first in the nation to guarantee 100 percent pay for that period.
San Francisco supervisors on April 5 voted to adopt an ordinance requiring covered employers to provide six weeks of full wage replacement for new parents, making the city the first in the nation to guarantee 100 percent pay for that period.
The ordinance requires employers with 20 or more employees to make up the portion of state disability pay that leaves workers short of full wages. The board adopted two amendments before final passage: one from Supervisor Eric Peskin that phases in coverage for smaller employers and adjusts employer-size thresholds, and one from Supervisor Scott Wiener that restores a limited private right of action, routed first through the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement for investigation.
The core sponsor,…
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