Experience of the countries that have been commissioned by the chambers of commerce and the other Business Organization and other countries have shown that the benefits have been, very positive, and the administrative costs have been extremely low, for example, the percentage of complaints brought against the employees have been extremely small. And by and large, when you create a safe space for an employee and an employer to have this conversation, the right type of conversation happens and the type that conversation that commissioner obrien said that the soccer schedules are changing because of the fall, those often lead to good places. And when we talk about specifically what is in the Administrative Burden, it is as follows, if i worked for you, i give you a piece of paper on day one that says hey, commissioner, i would love to shift my hours, i would like to go part time for the summer. You have a couple of weeks to give me back another sheet of paper that says, either i accept th
Okay, outside of that, could you give me one, one would be a child schedule at school or something . So, again the ordinance defines care giving, and says that if you are parent that has a child or children for which you have responsibilities and if there is someone in your life for whom, or is an independent relationship with you and a serious medical condition or if you have an elderly parent over the age of 65, these constitute sort of care giving situations that you could use as a basis to ask your employers. So, you know, one of the flags that i have immediately is the potential for abuse. So, if the parent came and said that my sons school has changed their soccer training it is going to be on thursday instead of friday evenings maybe this is too specific for you to give an answer to. Just to fashion this out. And could would that conceivablely be a care giving qualification that would make the employer have to adhere to that request . Let me be clear, it could be the basis of a
Okay. Any other commissioner questions before we go into Public Comment . You know, i have want to. Commissioner obrien . The count is to a year unless a major life event has occurred. And so, if a major life event has not occurred, can you give me an example of what a request will be based on . Sure, what we said was that you can make a requests and you can make at least two requests during the year and the idea around the two is that we know that a lot of parents deal with the school time and schedules and have to deal with a different summer schedules and so we want to give them the opportunity to make those shifts. And the major life event, is defined in the ordinance, so again, if you have a child, if someone in your family goes sick, that could be a opportunity for you to go to your employer and say hey, i know that four months ago we asked for a schedule based on the School Situation of our kids, but my dad just moved in with us and he is dying of cancer and we have to be able t
The gun to get his office in order, and probably put off other things that were on his legislative calendar, and so, im just curious why the rush to take this to the ballot . Sure, as i said before, i do wish that we had a little bit more time and we still do have time with regards to amendments to this and again, based on the feedback of the commission today it is my intention to offer the amendments when it is at the board of supervisors for the first time and as we consider this measure, part of the reason why we wanted to move forward with this as a ballot measure is that we wanted to have a more public conversation and a Public Education effort around these very issues. This is a policy that i think is worthy of adoption here in San Francisco, and it is a policy that at a National Level has already been attempted. But, because there have not been local or state jurisdictions that have adopted this, it has been harder to have a conversation about how we should accommodate and be mo
And that we will address it in a way that before the final report comes out, that you will have better clarity on how we hope to do that. The last thing that i want to do is again, go back to the positive Economic Impacts, and i have brought with us, a fact sheet that i dont think that the Small Business commission got and i would like to give it to your secretary. These show that how the reason that i am promoting this is that they have led in many instances to the economic benefits to the employees and to employers and as he said in the fourth bullet not only is this unlikely to harm the citys economy, but this kind of a policy is known in the policy literature as softtouch policies, it is the nudge effect and it is suggesting that employers do this, and if they do, they could better realize the Economic Impacts in a positive way, than he referred to and i want to end with that note and with that happy to answer any questions. Commissioner dwight . Great. Thank you. Actually before w