president chiu getting this ordinance introduced and i'm happy to be here today. it's a really important issue for our city that. we run a hotline and receive calls from dozens or women and we see results both negative and positive policies can have for opportunities for women and for men as well as who are struggling to take on the obligations. we really would like to applaud the approach this this legislation takes to opening up dialog between employers and employees. we've seen and heard from others this is about shifting the culture of the with that. i think we can look to our

experience with encouraging the interact active process with the discrimination law and we've seen how that law has come into being it's encouraged the integrate active process to look at our underlying assumption. we're talking about a lot of stereotypes. but they go beyond gender. it encourages us a society to look at what we can tribal and a good afternoon president chiu and supervisor wiener and a kim. i'm the co-founder of the san francisco parents political action committee.

our oxygen's it happy to officially support this legislation. we think it's a very good step in the right direction for, you know, some more familiar friendly san francisco. i want to acknowledge something that president chiu said earlier. i think it's amazing we leave in a city with the business leadership of san francisco has not opposed this it's not officially in the supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and

i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work with the next generation and work with the statewide family coalition. we work on with that policy in the state. i really want to express in my appreciation especially for president chu's leadership on this issue. there so many benefits and our work group really seeing our group is workers and parents so

we can be both things. and one of the things i love about our laws we have in california is the recognize that providing recognition and care when your and caregiver your family needs you there and that makes such a difference. i'm in a flexible workplace and i love this challenging job but four days a week i walk my between you daughters to school. so i appreciate this beginning with conversation and we're going to be involved >> thank you any other members of the public that wishes to speak line up on the left-hand side. whoever wants to come up >> i'm charley an view point.

>> i'm the co-founder and continued member of the need not. i'm going to read a brief statement which was recently published in the colonial. families represent the fundamental unit of a society. yet san francisco is experiencing children that fact or facts impacts the different. in this urban environment in which families struggle every year the board of supervisors president chiu could not be more welcome. month nonprofit organizations have these proposals in plays. the expectation is articulated

for family strength. the stadiums underscored that paying attention to the needs of staff is just as important for the quality it's our firm belief it employers who demonstrate understanding and flexibility for the appreciation that supports moral. san francisco families are needed and we the general public need to join together in this issue >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i work with parents with young children mostly. i belong to the sandwich generation. i live with my mother and two

teenage children's. i work in an organizations that allows for flextime i work with the parents and this make sense but many of the parents and the parents don't have this flexible time in their workplace. this would help families in dramatic ways or ways that just makes work more productive and workers more efficient. for example, being able to drive pie mom to a doctor's appointment or come in a lot later to work. i heard a crash and i saw my mom was on the floor. we able at the e.r. for 5 hours until the wee hours of the morning so having the flexion

time allowed me to come in a little bit later. families are fatiguing extreme pressure from work from raising young children and this flextime would help workers. it shouldn't require legislation for this common sense policy but if that's what it takes to protect the employees from barbara backlash so be it. workers can adjust their time and i applaud your support and supervisor chu for taking a lead-in this and i also - >> next speaker. >> good afternoon.

i'm jane bernard powers i'm with the democratic women in action. i support in what i believe is a really important issue and ordinance. and i want to talk about two things. first, the change in workplace culture. when i did my dissertation it was called for the rest of education in the young women in the progressive era. i stepped down into the workplace in the turn of the century. you all know that the employer employee relationship was found you could specialize and we thought this was wonderful by as a culture that effected much of the way we thought about the workplace in the last century.

this change this family friendly suggests it's time for us to really rethink the way we position employees and employers that since then if you're an employee you have an investment to what happens in the workplace and you have the need to ask for flexible time for your kids being sick my nephews had two children and if she gets sick that's bad news in the workplace. i've spent a lot of times in school listening to taverns who bemoaned their parents couldn't come in. as a parents you want to come in

and mothers especially, if they have something to attend to, they have - >> thank you very much. >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this issue. >> seeing none. >> public comment is closed. >> i have a couple of concluding comments. i want to address this letter they want to rental the support sf w pc recognitions the issue and we lend our full support we hope its passage is smooth and

hope it's implemented soon. i'll provide this to those the clerk. i want to mention in the first draft to the legislation when we introduced this in the late string there were some provisions to address issues we've heard about work ability from many schedules. there ought to be at least one or two weeks for individuals working tight shifts. there has not been a result we want to nouns i'll be convening a working group between others who are interested to see 23 we can't move that conversation forward. as i alluded to earlier i want to make one amendment to the

ordinance that was an issue raise by advocates and city staff as well as by business community about the importance to doing outreach and education around the law. so i want to read going into the right add a new section that reads the dependent on the statutes of women and the office of enforcement should have a workplace program to educate employees about their programs and it will make the materials assessable to employers and employees and we'll take appropriate technical changd changes to add this as well as on page 189 of the ordinance. the last thing again, i want to thank everyone who's been part of this journey.

i know this is a relatively new conversation for our city and state and country by all of you who are championing those issues we i think my colleagues have lead to make sure we're addressing other issues to address caregiver needs whether it comes to increasing more money for our schools and supervisor wiener's issues we supported work around housing but this is one important piece of the puzzles how we help our caregivers take care of the early generations and i want to thank you all to move this forward and colleagues, i hope we'll be able to move this out of the committee.

>> thank you, president chiu as moved to adopt certain amendments. their adopted >> i wanted to thank president chu's office and the many advocates. as a woman myself in a field that's dominated by me up i work with staff with two women and their managing family both seniors and children. it has been a huge i guess you don't say lifeguard movement. we have one mom who has 3 kids who has to leave in the middle of the day and so many issues around after school. in our office we have a flexible work schedule.

he understand that working mothers and fathers we need to help them while they're off doing an incredible job. i'm certainly happy to see this go through and all private employers should be adopting. i'm hoping this will create more dialog amongst our businesses. i also look forward to working with some of you i know have long been involved in proportion h and it's still important to be incredibly responsible. this the one piece of this where president chiu has stated after schools processes is important and i look forward to working on

that. i want to make a representations to move forward >> i'm happy to support this legislation. i also want to thank president chiu for the work you and your staff did to moving us to this point or i know this was first introduced and a ballot measure i know there was a fair amount of dialog and i do not like listing in the newspapers and so forth. i want to commend you and your staff for instead of just either - those who agreed and disagreed for coming up with a conversation that has positive impacts on our residents and is a piece of legislation we can all be proud of so thank you. with that we have a motion to forward to the board that that

with a positive recommendation we'll take to out observation >> madam clerk do we have any more business for today? >> that concludes our business. >> the meeting is ñçççç

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