good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 27th, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. i m supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. with me on the video conference is rules committee vice chair catherine stefani. i d like to thank sfgov for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: yes. due to the covid-19 health emergency and protocols, board members, city employees and the public, the board room is closed. however, members will be participating remotely. this caution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay-at-home order and proceeding local, state and federal orders, and directives. sorry, guys. supervisor ronen: sorry, i thought you were done. clerk: committee members will be attending through video conference and participating in the meeting in the same extent that they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26, sfgov.org are streamin
submit public comment, e-mail me at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit via e-mail, it will be included in the file as part of the matter. comments may be sent to city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, san francisco, california. that completes my comments. thank you so much, mr. clerk. can you please read item number one? item number one is an emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide public health emergency leave during the public health emergency related to covid-19. thank you so much. this is supervisor mar s item. would you like to introduce the item, supervisor mar? yes. thank you so much, chair ronen, for allowing us to hear this item today. an emergency ordinance before us is in response to a true emergency. the lack of sufficient paid leave for workers to follow our public health order to weather this crisis. while there is no silver bullet to our health and humanitarian emergency, this measure wi
wore putting this forward and i m putting this forward with my colleague, supervisor ronen, thank you, and supervisor mar, thank you, along with the support of jennifer and those from local 1021. and more importantly, the front loin nurses in particular at sf general that have been keeping us informed and letting us know about the situation. i think we ve did not a good job of being prepared as we can. this would allow san francisco and other areas to be even that much more prepared if and when there s a spike. so, that is all i have. the last thing i do want to say, supervisor peskin and i have been working over the weekend to try and get many of the private sectors janitors back to the table with some of the companies that are out there that are laying janitors off and their companies in this city that are treating their janitors as and many of their employees as they are their front-line employees and paying them. there are some that are deciding they re going to use thi
district attorney about the public health orders and i will say that he has been extremely supportive. we ve talked specifically about the need to if the need arises, he is supportive. i don t have those cases in terms of the details to discuss the merits of either of those cases. so, i don t think that s appropriate for me to go into detail that i don t have. but i will say they were both of the public health order violation nature. and those eventually will make its way to the proper authorities and the prosecutor and we ll see what happens. reporter: thank you. the next questions are for dr. grant colfax. thank you. reporter: dr. colfax, the first question is from kate wolfe. is the san francisco medical examiner s office testing for covid-19 in people who have died? so, the medical examiner is following c.d.c. guidelines with regards to testing for covid-19 in people who have died. that would include people who die suddenly who have a known contact with somebody
first, what the ordinance does. it won t immediately give an additional two weeks of paid leave to any san francisco employee of a private company with 500 or more employees. who it covers every single s.f. employee of a private company with 500-plus employees. even if you re furloughed and even if you are the employee in san francisco, even if you started working a month before shelter in place, even if you are a temp worker, even if you don t live in san francisco, but you work here. employers and health care providers are allowed to opt out. however, we re amending it to especially sure health care providers are given additional paid leave if they get sick or have to get quarantined. and all workers are presumed to be employees and covered until and unless then their employer demonstrates they are an independent contractor. now who this emergency ordinance does not cover people who are unemployed, public employees and they re covered bier our executive action, private