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Supervisors advance changes to city's Minimum Compensation Ordinance, divide anti-retaliation section for later hearing
Summary
The Finance Committee advanced amendments to San Francisco's Minimum Compensation Ordinance to index wages to CPI, cut the emergency threshold from 2% to 1% and split an anti-retaliation provision into a separate file for further hearing; budget analysts and the Mayor's Office flagged a $300,000 funding gap and enforcement staffing needs.
Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced an amended version of the city's Minimum Compensation Ordinance (MCO) at the Finance Committee meeting on Aug. 8, proposing CPI indexing to prevent erosion of wages and several technical clarifications. "Each nonprofit worker has lost over $17,000," Ammiano said, arguing indexing will help low-wage contractors keep pace with inflation.
Why it matters: The MCO governs pay floors for workers on city service contracts and airport leases. Ammiano's changes would set a baseline wage of $10.77 for covered contracts and require annual CPI adjustments beginning Jan. 1, 2008, while giving the mayor limited authority to suspend increases if a joint report projects a general fund shortfall above a threshold.
The City Attorney's Office briefed the committee on technical edits and the controversial anti-retaliation clause. A City Attorney…
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