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Committee adopts amendments to COVID-era reemployment ordinance, continues item for final action
Summary
The Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee adopted industry-specific amendments to a proposed right-to-reemployment ordinance for workers laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic and voted to continue the item to the call of the chair. The committee clarified notification methods and said enforcement will rely primarily on private legal action rather than city fines.
Chair Supervisor Gordon Marr said the committee had refined a proposed ordinance to extend a right to reemployment for workers laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic and moved to adopt a final set of amendments before continuing the item for final action. The changes aim to balance worker protections and business flexibility, Marr said.
The amendments set industry-specific employer thresholds by incorporating definitions used in the city's existing worker-retention laws. Under the revisions, covered industries explicitly include restaurants, hotels, grocery stores,…
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