employees. is it just the san francisco employees? or is just in the total number of employees throughout the united states? it should be consistent with the other legislation. we have. a lot of the legislation says number of employees in the whole united states whether it is one employees or 50 somewhere else and they come under the minimum. we as a group will not oppose this legislation if it boils down to employees have a right to request time off or change in their schedule without retaliation. that is what we would like for this is something that good businesses do all of the time. you have heard that. we do that. and having that legislation, legislated is what we would like, thank you very much. thank you. next speaker, please? hi, my name is rich gun and i am a cpa in san francisco. my firm is (inaudible) and we have 200 employees and i have clients that are all over the city from bay view, out to the great highway and, practically every neighborhood. and i talke
and a seamstress and they are both em grants and they are not like any of the people that are in this room. i grew up being told that i go to school and my parents worked hard to be here and they never wanted me to be sick, you know? to be helped so i can stay healthy, but also because they didn t think that they would be able to take care of me. or to pick me up from school or to any of those things that you need to do when circumstances come up with your child. my sisters and i grew up really elthy, but every year, someone would come to school and be sick, i don t know why because sher parents told them not to be sick and they got sick and they were pushed to go to school. and infect the rest of us. and so, my parents, my mom was a seamstress and she could not take off the work to take care of us. but, eventually it came to a point where she had to take care of me and my sisters and my family over all in the house, so much more than work that she had to leave her job, she
number of hours in that two week or the one week look ahead schedule and so we are going to have the disgruntled employees and instead of the loyal and dedicated workforce you are going to have people that are pissed off because we are told that only going to get a work a minimum number of hours and that is going to cause all sorts of decent in a company. and the supervisor s point is similar legislation in brit tan and i did used to live there and i do know something about legislation there and this is much tougher. and there is no scheduling requirement in the legislation, and it is not enerous here. i don t feel that this legislation is geared towards the san francisco family and most san francisco families can t live here, do things like improved affordable housing and transit and schools and this is scoring popularity points about small businesses. thank you. next speaker, please? hi, good evening, commissioners my name is kelley dyer, and i am a contract officer
schedules already, where does that stop? and what are your obligations as an employer? i like to mention that 85 percent of the employers in san francisco will be excluded from this if it is ten employees or more and so it will be bringing to 20 employees i don t know where that level is, but if you are a larger employer, where are 70 people? and we have a flexibility work program. i think that you find the larger employers do that and they can and it only makes business sense. excuse me, i was a bit disturbed by the fact that this is the right to ask. this gives the employee the right to ask. i would think that the employee has a right to ask for a flexible schedule. from anybody, whether you are 5, 10, 15, i don t see, and it should be an open door policy, if you don t have those policies, i think that you have larger problems in your business and this ordinance will not fix any of that. and it all only covers care givers and they may want to pursue a hobby and may want t
problems where i had to sometimes cut back on school a little bit to take care of my brother or maybe even was frowned don by taking off of work, it is good to have the employees to have an environment to request the flexible work schedules and i don t think that caused problems for the employers and i think that this will be a benefit to everyone. both employees and employers and there are facts behind that. thank you. next speaker? michael mackinzie, third generation business owner i have kids, they are eat and fixing their own food. so i just want to say i am all for a flexible work schedule and i agree completely, and you keep the employees and it is great. but what i have a problem with is that it is being mandated. and it is burden some on the paperwork and we are going to have to keep some type of paperwork on this, we do already for health ordinance and we do for all sorts of things and i am a bit confused as to how this will work with cfra and fmla and family l