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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 f ....
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 agains ....
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 SocietyEmployment 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 At ....
Business has gone up 50 since temperatures first dropped last week. And in the oakland hills, news chopper 2 is overhead after police shut down part of claire minute avenue near fish ranch road where police say black ice caused a 7car pileup about 8 30 this morning. No one was hurt, but several cars were damaged. Good evening to you, and this is the fourth night in a row we are going to endure frigid temperatures. We do have advisories that will move into place in the overnight hours, and the numbers already rapidly dropping off. 36 in napa right now. 40 degrees in concord. 49 San Francisco. As we head inland, east bay, 37 degrees at walnut creek, 33 degrees out mount diablo low 40s in mrez santon and livermore. We have advisories. The frost advisory for our bay side communities, back into the 30s into the overnight hours and shades of purple for our inland valley locations, northeast and south bay, a freeze warning that will last ....
And a cucumber up his neck. It made him fight for his life. And he won. Reporter the couple met armstrong several times, after raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for his organization. But with his admission of doping today, theyre conflicted. They treated people, maybe not the right way over time. But you cant take away what hes done with his name and helped the millions of people who have been diagnosed with cancer. Shame on lance. But in the same breath, congratulations to him for, you know, his fight with cancer. And its thanks to that we are where we are now. Reporter and its Something Else that turned him into an everyday symbol of appreciation. When hammer met him in 2001, he was 48 hours away from having surgery that would prevent him from having anymore kids. Months later, hammer was doing well and his wife was pregnant with josh, who is now 9 years old. Theres moments in our life, where youre reminded of what you ha ....