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Merchant association and theres two major cultivations one will be at the Assembly Hall that is a allowing all party a fashion show for retails there are 0 total of 8 other stores planting with themes and activities some are photo bothers and winetasting and other food with the focus around getting people to shop to the Small Businesses as the sun goes down next is the street art program that will be take place in noah valley with the professional association and the Arts Commission American Exp...

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 sho...

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 understand the spirit and lord know i worked in small franchises when i went to college and sometimes, it was crazy so i get that, however, i would like to holdoff on this legislation until we defin...

Helped to work with the supervisor on the task force with some of the businesses are here in this room from the Business Associations like the chamber and the Restaurant Association one of the components of the bill theres a study component were really interested in how its working and you know we want to make sure its implemented thats an important piece we want to work on policies that work for workers and the other thing its protective for workers to trade shifts and have the flexibility that...

Large corporate employers so those jobs for justice and other groups weve been working with took a different approach we wanted to trailer and targeted are tattered those to the big corporations and their corporate restaurant particularly the fast food restaurants that are causing the problems nationally those low road employers not only the allow wages harm the workers that work for them and help to generate their profits but harmful to the Small Businesses in San Francisco and nationally becau...

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 b...

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 s...

This legislation. Thank you very much. Any more speakers . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioners do we have any comments . 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 ...

One of the tvngz with president chiu one thing about the legislation yes, it only effects formula retail with 20 or more employees but all of us with smaller numbers of employees we have to be competitive were going to end up giving our employees like the bigger ones do to be competitive is that a big deal not a big deal my business has been doing t this for years i want to object the larger employer city and county of San Francisco when necessary bye stuff theyre to get the lowest bid this legi...

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