they move through their case process. with that, i am happy to take any questions. thank you. any questions? thank you very much. let s turn the hearing to public comment. let me call of your names. if you could please come up,walter, norman, chung, johannes, chen, chen, if you could please start lining up. please come forward. if you could please come up and you could begin to speak. lopez. juan, claud, brown, kate, any member of the public who would like to speak, please come up. the mic is yours. [speaking foreign language] good afternoon supervisors over your lunch time. i am from the progress of workers of lyons. i am an activist in the tiny speaking community. chinese speaking community. [speaking foreign langueage] i work with low-income parents and i help them do referrals. i work with a lot of wage theft. speaking[speaking foreign la] they worked very hard to make a living for their families. they think if bay put 100%, they will get 100% back. unfort
i have been a worker for over 10 years at a restaurant in san francisco. in one case, accessing my right to paid lift paid sick leave, i went from having a five-day workweek to only having two days. this particular case was an emergency were ahead to take care of my children. my employer told me if i had to take paid state had to take paid sick leave, i should stay home with my children and not work those days. so i am here to ask you all to please join us in putting an end to wage theft. employers apply their own laws and do not follow the labor laws here in san francisco. i am a working mother. i have a family to provide for. with this retaliation from employers not enforcing our rights, it is not acceptable. so paid sick leave is actually the law. for them to retaliate against us is unjust. i am not just talking about my own rights, but also the rights of my co-workers, who sometimes cannot speak up, and for workers in communities across the country. chairperson campos
so there is not enough pressure on employers. employers use these loopholes to escape the law. after two years, this year, finally, the city got the employer to call them to go to a hearing. so all this time the employer has been ignoring the city. right before the hearing, the lawyers said, let s settle. so, in the final settlement, the agreement seems to be it will take two years for the payment plan to complete. so it is going to be around $40,000. because the process took so long, a lot of workers just dropped out. so the workers are taking more than two years to get their wages back, but can the workers wait two years to pay their rent? we are not saying the olc is not doing their job. we are saying the law needs to be enforced aggressively. so we want the law to be enforced effectively. we do not want to have to waste 108 days for workers to get their money back, to get their judgment. chairperson campos: thank you. we want to resolve the issue in one year. chairper