The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 58, the nays are 41, the nomination is agreed to. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form prior to the cloture vote. Who yields time . Time is yielded back. The presiding officer who yields time in support of the nomination . The senator from new jersey. Mr. Menendez parliamentary inquiry. I understand the republican side has yielded their time back . The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Who yields time . The senator is correct. The time in opposition is yielded back. Mr. Menendez i will yield back our time. The presiding officer all time having been yielded back, by unanimous consent, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the
That even before legislation like this was adopted, this is a practice that the employers having increasingly adopted in the United States and around the world and they have done it because it is good practice. And because it is beneficial for both sides and when you see the voluntary things happen in the economy they happen because it is good for both the employer and the employee. And the supervisor alluded to some of those benefits that it leads to higher female participation in the labor force. And it reduces, a care givers chance that they may have to leave a job because they cannot make it work with their family obligations. And it allows the flexibility as the type of the ordinance suggests that allows the people to stay with the job when they otherwise might not be able to if it was not flexible. There are credible study and a higher sense of productivity and loyalty and so those are the quek benefits of it and this is also true that the legislation in the recent years and star
Percent of the private businesses in San Francisco, fall into that category of having ten or more employees. And they account for about 85 percent of the private sector jobs . The city. What gets potentially covered under the request is a fairly broad range of terms and conditions of employment. And including, changed to the hours that the employee works and the time where they start and end work and where they work and whether at home or at a place of business the assignment and what they actually do on the job or really any other term or condition of their employment. For example, a part Time Employee could request a increase in their hours under this legislation and request to be full time, for example. And the only difference in the legislation as far as we can tell, between a flexible and a predictable working arrangement is enforcement and i will talk to you on that in a few moments. So the process is the initial request must be made in writing by the employee. If your initial re
For you that we received president chius amended legislation on july third and this is based on the analysis of the amended version of the legislation, as the supervisor told you there was significant changes between the original and the amended version but what we are talking about is the new amended version. First i want to give you an overview and i will echo what the supervisor told you, but i just want to set the stage sfo some of my later remarks. And what it essentially does is allow a qualified employees, a certain number of employees in San Francisco to make one or two types of request, a Flexible Working arrangement or a predictable working arrangement. From a certain set of employers in San Francisco. Now a qualified employee is anyone who is responsible for the care of a child, or a serious medical condition or taking care of a parent over the age of 65 and has to have worked for the employer over 6 months and work eight or more hours a week, it is important to consider tha
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