With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
Hard during the one call day to figure out if they can go out with friends and dinner or hang out with their parents it effects their day to day and week to week so i urge you to support of the workers bill of rights it will help them and thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioners my name is a gordon the director of jobs of justice im here to speak in support of the two ordinances which combined the workers bill of rights and campaigned supervisor mar and supervisor chiu for theyre fair policies it is a combrourg policy in San Francisco that will become the first place in the city to protective late fair schedules for workers who very much need these and jobs of justice is a workers right organization so for all the reasons all the speakers should spoken weve been involved in helping to create and advocate for the whole range of difficult progressive policies here in San Francisco from minimum wage to the sick pay leaf and other iss
Commissioner riley i agree with one of the speakers we should recommend to combine those two protections into one. Okay commissioner ortizcartagena. Thank you, everybody for coming and speaking and the spirit and the intentions im obviously supportive and understand the benefits to the workforce i have questions on the first ordinance as the commissioner riley had also i too would rather wait until the formula retail is defined and maybe get more input from Small Businesses your commission to protect Small Businesses and the intent and spirit of the ordinance i know it will help our community i want to share theres no unintended bad things to happen to Small Businesses as a result of this. Commissioner riley and yeah. I also think we should i want to see more flexibility for both the employer and employee i if two employees want to shift change we cant do it here without pejt listing the employer. Any more comments i personally want to see both of these combined into one ordinance i do
Location. How many franchises do you count i or two locations what be able. That was a concern i left that out the employee threshold. The legislation captures that 5 percent. The legislation does with the 20 employee threshold excluding the 7eleven by when businesses are going to be left out if wereth for the Small Businesses that dont have the employees. Well, there goes any public speaking time. You have two minutes. Okay. Thank you i want to raise your attention to the data about the workforce in 2006 before the recession hit the number of workers in california has troiptd this is not a california issue but a National Issue in San Francisco almost a quarter of our employees are 25 percent and its at an at risk city where scheduling is per valve across the cat and 2 3rds of food service and half of the restaurant get their schedules less than a week and half and they have fluctuation and working parents are hit the head it theyll e theyll not know how much theyll work and president
Good evening, commissioners my name is a gordon the director of jobs of justice im here to speak in support of the two ordinances which combined the workers bill of rights and campaigned supervisor mar and supervisor chiu for theyre fair policies it is a combrourg policy in San Francisco that will become the first place in the city to protective late fair schedules for workers who very much need these and jobs of justice is a workers right organization so for all the reasons all the speakers should spoken weve been involved in helping to create and advocate for the whole range of difficult progressive policies here in San Francisco from minimum wage to the sick pay leaf and other issues with the Small Business community and we certainly understand the concerns of Small Business when alleged you know mandates are applied to them equally as their applied to the large corporate employers so those jobs for justice and other groups weve been working with took a different approach we wanted