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Committee amends emergency "Back to Work" ordinance, raises employer threshold and forwards to Board without recommendation
Summary
The committee adopted sponsor amendments to an emergency ordinance giving laid‑off workers a temporary right to reemployment, raising the employer coverage threshold in the amendments to 100 employees, exempting health-care operations and removing a 90‑day retention requirement; it forwarded the amended ordinance to the full Board as a committee report without recommendation (3–0).
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on June 18 accepted amendments to an emergency "Back to Work" ordinance that would give certain employees laid off because of the COVID‑19 pandemic a right of first refusal to be rehired if their former employer fills the same or a substantially similar position. After adopting sponsor changes, the committee forwarded the measure to the Board of Supervisors as a committee report without recommendation.
Chair Gordon Marr described the ordinance as “bold” and said the intent is to prioritize rehiring laid‑off workers by seniority and to extend basic recall protections to unrepresented employees.…
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