Budget committee advances predictable-scheduling and retail-worker ordinances, restores small-business threshold

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors budget and finance committee on Nov. 17 advanced two ordinances that would regulate scheduling and worker retention for formula retail establishments, voting to remove a newly added 200-employee retention threshold, restore a 20-employee employer threshold for small franchises, and set the ordinances to become operative six months after passage without an additional six-month enforcement delay.

The measures — described by the clerk as amendments to the Police Code that would require employers to offer additional hours to current part-time employees when available, require successor employers to retain employees for 90 days after a change in control, provide two weeks' notice of posted work schedules and compensation for schedule changes with fewer than seven days' notice — are intended to increase schedule predictability and job security for retail and related workers.

Sponsor remarks and coalition support Supervisor Marr, identified in the transcript as the sponsor, framed the package as part of a broader effort to raise standards for low-wage retail workers and said the ordinances would affect roughly 40,000 workers in the city. Marr announced three…