Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: 4/5ths
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Dave Pine, District 1
Supervisor Warren Slocum, District 4
Subject: Emergency COVID-19 Paid
Sick Leave Ordinance
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adoption of an emergency ordinance requiring the provision of supplemental paid
sick leave for COVID-19 related reasons for employees of employers with 500 or more employees in the unincorporated areas of San Mateo County.
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BACKGROUND:
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ("FFCRA"), which went into effect on April 1, 2020. The FFCRA, among other things, requires private employers with fewer than 500 employees to provide temporary paid
sick leave for specific reasons related to COVID-19. The FFCRA's provisions apply from the effective date of April 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, and it is administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
On April 16, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order No. N-51-20, which required private employers to provide supplemental paid
sick leave to food sector workers for reasons related to COVID-19.
Taken together, the FFCRA and Executive Order No. N-51-20 ensure much needed COVID-19 related
sick leave to employees. Those measures, however, do not apply to employees who are not food sector workers for private companies employing more than 500 employees. These employees are neither eligible for the emergency paid
sick or expanded
leave provisions of the FFCRA, nor the supplemental paid
sick leave provisions of Executive Order No. N-51.20.
On April 14, 2020, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco approved an Emergency Ordinance for Public Health Emergency
Leave ("SF Ordinance"), which temporarily requires private employers with 500 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of paid
sick leave for reasons rela...
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