>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco full board of supervisors of november 25, 2014, madam clerk call the roll. >> supervisor avalos supervisor avalos not present supervisor breed supervisor campos

president chiu supervisor cohen supervisor cohen not present supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim not present supervisor mar supervisor mar not present supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor kim present mr. president, we have quorum. >> thank you supervisor cohen has asked to be executed we'll take that without objection. she's executed with that, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all

colleagues we have our october 21st, 2014, board meeting minutes can i have a motion to approve we'll take that without objection. those minutes are approved madam clerk any communications. >> yes. the first if the office of supervisor cowen dated september 7th the supervisor will not be in presence the board has executed her and another one the appellant for the property located at 3 hundred one street her withdrawal of her items and the final communication dated november 20th from mr. jason for the property on katrero indicating his withdrawal through 44. >> thank you madam clerk colleagues why not our consent calendar. >> this is the compromise of

the items those can be severed. >> colleagues sever. >> supervisor mar supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu supervisor farrell supervisor kim there are 10 i's those items are approved and with that, next item. >> item 5 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to regulate the formula retail establishments requiring the owners to be additional hours to retain employees for 90 days upon a change of business. >> item 67.

>> to require the formula retail established to provide the employees two weeks of schedule changes made on less than 7 days notice and unused on call shifts and to provide the part-time folks with the same pay and the eligibility for promotions as full-time employees. >> colleagues any discussion supervisor mar. >> thank you president chiu colleagues this railway workers bill of rights those two ordinances are historic you bill of rights for tens of thousands up to 40 or 50 thousand workers in the city a product of organizations forming a difference board and strong isolation that advocated for this for several years i want to thank president chiu for his

work in bringing organizations together and also the board 40 organization coalition that was led by jobs for justice next generation the california work and family could coalition and the san francisco labor would you be able and many, many organizations i wanted to actress that this is groundbreaking historic legislation that will establish the board of supervisors and the city of san francisco as the first to insure that many low income workers have basic rights the bill of rights are that workers deserve predictable schedules that are fair and equality and railway workers have the right for full-time hours before apartment workers and retailer workers have a right to be paid a minimum number of hours being on call to

work that are not given a shift the retailer workers have the right to keep their jobs nor 90 days if their company is sold and for parity and fairness are the key prong legislation also is a product of organizing from a number of organizations community organizations and the input of small business and business sector as well lifting workers out of poverty as this legislation will help to raise the minimum wage but courage full-time work many folks are not just living paycheck to paycheck by hour to hour and suffering from ironic schedules that will help corp retailers

have jobs that are more sustainable we have corporate are retailers abuse retail practices are causing instability for people that serve our food and stock our shelves and sweep the floors this effects the morning for the la at a whether or not they receive the ability to balance the lives and work the people that get the hours they need are vulnerable to poverty one in 4 involuntarily apartment workers live in poverty vs. one in 20 full-time workers strong wages stable hours and same schedules are the basics that families and workers in all part of the community deserve to build a life in san francisco

this legislation will make san francisco a great place to work for tens of thousands people keeping the workers working we need to race the welcoming in san francisco with the prop j package and the economic that is leading to more the have and have nots in the wealth gap and like the minimum wage paid sick leave and health care ordinances in our city the city should continue on a path that's healthy for all of us i urge strong support as we magnified and supervisor kim supervisors and president chiu not seeing this as one piece of legislation but all cities to follow suit in the state and federal level to have the fairness for many low income people in the city with that, i'd like to thanks

president chiu for his incredible work on this piece of legislation supervisor breed is next on the roster. >> last week, i offered an amendment for janitors and many of the contractors employ people that have varies employment and have a hard time finding jobs i was concerned this could have a chilling effect on the hiring but many of my colleagues see it differently i looked at specifically what we're requiring of the contractors and under the language in 3300 f dot e and 340 odot f g contractors operating will be required to comply with those ordinances as soon as the ordinances goes into effect any concern is those existing contracts were likely

negotiated before the legislation came up and the contractors may not have a way of knowing what it is that impacts them or 0 how they're expected to comply under the legislation formula retails will be required to disclose the regulations yet there are no such provision in existing contracts my office discussed that with donna what the office of labor standards i was hoping this could be resolved but ms. levitt pointed out that will be difficult to identify who they are and how to reach them i drafted a brief amendment it requires the formula retails to comply under the organizes this is unsubstantive ms. levitt and the office of labor standards support that and local 87 the janitors union i know that

president chiu last board meeting after all the amendments we've thrown at him and supervisor mar i can't bring myself to rain on his parade you i'll introduce this at our next board meeting thank you (clapping.) president chiu. >> supervisor campos it up next. >> i look forward to hearing about the trailing of the legislation it is weakening protection for the laborers i'm not be declined to support that it is precisely you want to provide those protections i look forward to the legislation but it's surprisingly instead of trying to strengthen this legislation we're trying to undermine the working conditions of some of the people that actually need the most

protection. >> xhouch. >> or supervisor mar. >> yeah. i forgot to mention i want to thank supervisor campos and supervisor avalos so far being the co-sponsors with president chiu with this piece of legislation. >> supervisor breed. >> supervisor campos to the chair it didn't weaken the legislation it requires that the office of labor standards novice those who have existing contracts with the city and county to make sure they novice them of the requirements they're fully aware to comply with the clarity. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair let me say with regards to supervisor breed's amendments i have not had the chance to look at the language but i appreciate her going with the trailing legislation i'll be inclined to

support it but i'll appreciate our thought and there will be further communication i want to echo supervisor mar thanking the labor leaders swals as well as employers that worked with our offices to move forward this forwarding we know our economy is going better we've heard from hundreds of apartment workers that can't tell their families when they'll work and how much they'll eastern their joulg many jobs i'm intruding proud of the fact our city has led the way in minimum wage and sick leave and last year with the friendly workplace ordinances we will continue to establish a real standard for predict i want to thank you for your unanimous vote i hope we can look forward

colleagues to working with you and those context in the coming years to insure that our low wage hourly workers have the protection to live the lives we want them to live in our san francisco i ask for your support. >> supervisor avalos. >> i just like to make sure i'm a co-sponsor of the president chius legislation as well and that's all. >> i'll make a note of that. >> colleagues discussion on items five or six roll call vote. >> supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos

supervisor chiu supervisor farrell supervisor kim there are 10 i's. (clapping.) >> these owners are finally passed (clapping.) thank you madam clerk next item 7. >> is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to enter into health contracts to services for individuals covered under state and federal calls. >> colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this ordinance is passed. >> item 8 is to amend the administrative code for a street light policy. >> colleagues, same house, same call? this ordinance is finally passed. >> item 9 ordinance to amend the administrative code to allow contractors and intraushthd to submit an equal pay for

compensation in establishing the equal pay to analysis the best methods of the data in setting for the membership and duties of board. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president i'd like to begin by thanking my colleagues 0 who are co-sponsors supervisor kim, supervisor avalos, supervisor mar and supervisor farrell i want to thank my staff chief of staff hillary that has been working on this for quite some time and following organizations that support it the equal rights advocates and the california charter of the women the legal aids society and san francisco political committee and the asian law caucus and the california teachers association and nursing association the national union of local 21 i know there are a number of

individuals in the audience who are here to physically come in support of this legislation and ask them if they can stand so we can acknowledge all the individuals here in support of this legislation thank you very much thank you. >> let me say that as you recall out of respect for my colleagues who wanted additional time to consider this piece of legislation i voted in the continuance of this law since that time the commission on the status of women held a hearing and spoke to the human rights commission that didn't have critiques about the ordinance this morning we met with our city administrators for the departments under her

leadership can chiropractor to implement the law and if you pass this law today, we'll begin a long process that did not have contractors submitting equal pay reports until the ended of january 2016 we must first challenge an advisory committee to hold he several public meetings in which the board will allow the city to identify evidence of wage discrimination as well as the burn on contractors i want to address some of the questions and concerns that have been raised by a number of folks about the ordinance first of all, many people have asked what the fiscal impact of the legislation is and i know that our budget analyst harassed looked at the issue the director of the human rights commission teresa estimates she'll need a one half to one full-time employee to implement the law

and certainly has the budget process begins i'll be recognizing for that to be included in the budget for the human rights commission we also decide on the best we'll be discussing on the best data collection system to implement there maybe a need for an amendment for the amount of money that is $50,000 so overall the impact in terms of the financial gang on the city will be minimum and even with some of the issues that have been raised we building this does noted constitute a financial impact to require this be sent to committee certainly self-meet the threefold by the city and board the fact that wage

discrimination is already illegal had he has been illegal for more than 60 years the reason the problem persists this is a secret what happens in terms of how people get paid is something we're not supposed to talk about and women continue to be shortchanged because they know that they don't actually know they're being shortchanged that's why this issue remains unchanged since the federal government made the pay inequality illegal second where wage discrimination exists the employers set an equal pay by asking the employees to report compensation to the city we're asking city contractors to unconscious take a look at how

contemplation works for them i'll give you an example something that was pointed out during the meeting of the commission status of women merna who is the executive director of jamestown community center testified on the status of women upon hearing about this piece of legislation she asked her home sharing employee to prepare a report to understand whether or not their disparity of pay between men and women and we're talking about a pretty open-minded equal organization and even in that organization merna was surprised there's paid discrepancies she couldn't provide but for this law this was something she wouldn't have looked into we believe it