Rules Committee advances emergency paid‑leave ordinance for large private employers; health‑care amendment continued

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on a remote meeting advanced an emergency ordinance intended to require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide an additional two weeks of public‑health emergency leave during the COVID‑19 emergency, referring the amended file to the full Board and continuing one substantive amendment for further work.

Supervisor Matt Marr, the measure’s sponsor, told the committee the ordinance "will immediately give an additional 2 weeks paid leave to any San Francisco employee of a private company with 500 or more employees," and said the measure was designed to close what he called a federal loophole that exempted the largest employers. Marr said the proposal covers employees who are furloughed, temps, single local employees, and even workers who do not live in San Francisco but who work here; it excludes public…