And its brought it down to about a quarter of a mile in concord and livermore. That dense tule fog rolling out of the Sacramento Valley is really creating some problems for drivers coming through the altamonte pass, making that super commute, also in santa rosa we have a quarter mile visibility as well as napa. Watch out for that as you drive. Here is what to expect, the scattered rain returns tomorrow, so we do have one more dry day today and that rain continues through friday. It will clear on saturday, it will be nice, but cool, and we will have a stronger storm moving in late on sunday, our High Temperatures today reaching above normal for some, so we will take a look at these numbers and the timing of that incoming storm coming up in just a few minutes. Mike, youre tracking the big backup heading out of livermore. You were talking about the super commute, the fog making it a soupy commute thats registering on our road weather index, thats where its this amber color here. Also the
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
Problems where i had to sometimes cut back on school a little bit to take care of my brother or maybe even was frowned don by taking off of work, it is good to have the employees to have an environment to request the Flexible Work schedules and i dont think that caused problems for the employers and i think that this will be a benefit to everyone. Both employees and employers and there are facts behind that. Thank you. Next speaker . Michael mackinzie, Third Generation Business Owner i have kids, they are eat and fixing their own food. So i just want to say i am all for a Flexible Work schedule and i agree completely, and you keep the employees and it is great. But what i have a problem with is that it is being mandated. And it is burden some on the paperwork and we are going to have to keep some type of paperwork on this, we do already for Health Ordinance and we do for all sorts of things and i am a bit confused as to how this will work with cfra and fmla and family leave act that ex