With the university home, could you give us some examples of wage theft in the Nursing Home Industry . Yeah, i deal a lot with the care home industry which is a smaller facility. Theyre usually a sixbed facility. It is either elderly individuals or folks with Developmental Disabilities that receive funding through private or through the state. The common practice in those care homes, small Residential Care homes is to hire one or two individuals to take care of the residents in the facility and pay them a certain flat rate. So, youll hear testimony actually in the Public Comment section from a woman who worked in one of these facilities who came forward and complained about the conditionses and a collaboration that largely came out of the task force, with we were able to collect wages through attorney and [speaker not understood] being involved in the community center. These individuals work up to 17, 18, 24 hours a day sometimes, for a flat rate of 60 a day. And 60 does not compensate
For the solution. What we need is a portfolio for both short and longterm solutions. This supplemental focuses on the most immediate needs and we already have Many Organizations in dire straits. The bla report highlights the 2001 grant and puts out possible models for criteria for prioritization for what kind of an application process we would have. And [speaker not understood] going on reserve while the task force does its hard work and comes up with its recommendations for the best and most fair way to allocate these funds and what kind of an application process should exist. And we want to ensure that this limited pot of money is used in the best possible fashion. I do want to actually respond to supervisor mars question about the loss of nonprofits in the city. The october report that the budget and legislative analyst did noted about 7500 San Francisco an nonprofits two years if go and now there are 6,000. We lost 20 of our nonprofits. We dont want to go any further. ~ so, thank y
Departments, perhaps including agency that were not sitting on the task force but do have a part to play, the ongoing collaboration among the city departments is of utmost importance. We also recommended that if its not already inherent and in permits and Business Licenses and in other city regulations, that the board of supervisors should act to authorize city departments to suspend or revoke permit business he that violate wage theft laws. And finally, information showing this is one of the big challenges we discovered, but that some ways for agencies in the city to coordinate data around business data through the interactions of businesses uniformly to violators can be tracked. We have had specific recommendations directed at the agencies that sat on the task force, and most of these recommendations were amazingly generated by the agencies themselves about ways that they could more efficiently participate in the fight against wage theft. Their recommendation was that the City Attorn
You know, theres a great deal of changes that are happening in San Francisco to our specifically the Arts Community. Although over the many years theres a lot of art space that has been lost, and i think that it will will be really important to look at how we can increase space for the artists and one way we can do that is perhaps to lease a space or even buy a space to allow for [speaker not understood] to have a space to rent at low cost to be able to stay here in San Francisco and do their work, possibly musical groups as well. I know over the years we have lost a great deal of space. So, im actually interested in seeing how we can expand the scope of the nonprofit work group. How we can do more work with the [speaker not understood]. The recommendations already within the Profit Sector we want to be able to support through the supplemental appropriation, but i think it would be good to actually look at expanding what we could do for the arts and allow there to be different, you kno
Final report from the Wage Theft Task force. As you know, the task force was created by the board of supervisors on june 12th, 2012. It was charged with making recommendations to the board regarding how the city could best address wage theft in San Francisco. We met monthly from october 2012 to september 2013 and our finding and recommendations were presented in a written final report that was submitted to the board. Id like to introduce the members of the task force. In addition to charlotte, who at the time was an attorney at the Legal Aid Society Employment Law center and is now selfemployed, and myself, and im the director of the office of labor standards and enforcement. Laurel turner represented the City Attorneys office. Rebecca wagoner represented the District Attorneys office. Captain Thomas Cleary represented s. F. P. D. Karen yu represented the department of Public Health. Lou phillips from the treasurer and Tax Collectors Office. Regina [speaker not understood] from the off