Minimum-wage workers say Oakland should do more to stop labor violations
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A message is painted on 45th Street in front of a shuttered McDonald s restaurant at Telegraph Avenue Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Health officials ordered the fast food restaurant to shut down after several employees contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus.Paul Chinn/The Chronicle
Despite Oakland’s adoption of worker protections before and during the pandemic, two Latina women say they experienced labor violations that the city hasn’t resolved.
Clara Valenzuela, a McDonald’s employee in East Oakland, said the restaurant required her to bring in a doctor’s note if she called in sick, making it difficult for her to access paid sick leave benefits that the city enacted during the health crisis.
San Francisco set to approve reparations task force
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S.F. Supervisor Shamann Walton announced legislation early last year calling for reparations for Black people.Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle 2020
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is slated to approve a 15-member African American Reparations Advisory Committee on Tuesday, which would make the city the first of its size to take such a concrete step to explore what reparations could look like for its Black residents.
Over the next two years, the committee plans to explore possible financial compensation and other recommendations for the descendants of enslaved people. It would examine how slavery, segregation, redlining, predatory financial practices, and other social and political ills contributed to the mistreatment and subsequent wealth gap and other disparities affecting Black people in the city.