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Committee recommends renewing San Francisco’s temporary ‘back-to-work’ reemployment right
Summary
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee voted unanimously Oct. 29, 2020 to recommend that the Board of Supervisors reenact a temporary ordinance requiring certain employers to first offer positions to laid-off workers as the city reopens; Chair Gordon Marr said more than 500 workers have been rehired under the policy.
San Francisco’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Oct. 29 recommended that the Board of Supervisors reenact an emergency ordinance that gives certain employees a temporary right to reemployment after pandemic-related layoffs.
Chair Supervisor Gordon Marr said the ordinance — an extension of the city’s earlier "back-to-work" rule — would be extended for 60 days and is intended to make large employers rehire, rather than replace, workers displaced by COVID-19: "Put simply, this ensures that large businesses forced to cut employees because of the pandemic or public health orders, rehire rather than replace their laid off workers when they reopen," Marr said.
Marr told the committee that "already over 500 laid off workers have been rehired through this policy," and urged the committee’s support. Clerk John Carroll had earlier explained remote public comment procedures and said that items acted on would appear on the Board agenda on Nov. 10 unless otherwise stated.
There were no callers in the public comment queue for the item. Chair Marr moved that the committee recommend the ordinance as a committee report to the full Board at the Nov. 3 meeting; the committee approved the recommendation by a 3-0 vote.
The committee’s action forwards the emergency reenactment to the Board of Supervisors for consideration at the full meeting. No amendments or dissenting votes were recorded at the committee level.
