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One way in which SR Holguin, PC ensures our clients and their members stay informed is by keeping you updated on recent developments relating to workers’ rights. Today’s updates come following the release of the January 26, 2021 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Meeting agenda and supplemental agenda. There is one item in particular that could impact you.
Workers Who Could be Impacted: Workers Throughout Unincorporated LA County
Supplemental Agenda items 37-E “Extending the Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Ordinance” and 37-F “County Code, Title 8 – Consumer Protection, Business and Wage Regulations Amendment”
A Motion will be introduced by Chair Hilda Solis (1st District). The Motion provides in part “[t]he COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many lives in the Los Angeles County workforce. On March 31, 2020…the Board of Supervisors adopted a motion that called for a report back on implementing protections for workers in unincorporated Los Angeles County affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic. The report back examined the provision for supplemental paid sick leave benefits. The federal government had enacted H.R. 6201 Federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Families First Act), which required employers with fewer than 500 employees to provide supplemental paid sick leave benefits to their employees impacted by COVID-19. On April 28, 2020, the County of Los Angeles enacted an urgency ordinance extending the paid sick leave benefit to employees at businesses that employ 500 or more employees nationally, in the County’s jurisdiction, which were not covered by the Families First Act. The supplemental paid sick leave benefits provided under Chapter 8.200 expired on December 31, 2020. In light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic…the benefits under Chapter 8.200 should be extended. In addition, the Families First Act’s supplemental paid sick leave benefits for employees at employers with fewer than 500 employees expired on December 31, 2020. In light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic…the sick leave benefits provided under Chapter 8.200 should be extended to all employers with fewer than 500 employees in the County’s jurisdiction.”
Therefore, the Motion calls for “the Board of Supervisors [to] approve the attached ordinance to amend the Los Angeles County COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Ordinance contained in Chapter 8.200 of Title 8 of the Los Angeles County Code, to extend supplemental paid sick leave for employees at businesses employing 500 or more employees nationally and establish supplemental paid sick leave to employees of all employers in the unincorporated areas of the County.”
On January 21, 2021, an Analysis of the Ordinance conducted by the County Counsel was submitted to the Board. The Analysis provided in part “[t]his urgency ordinance amends the Los Angeles County COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Ordinance contained in Chapter 8.200 of Title 8 — Consumer Protection, Business and Wage Regulations —of the Los Angeles County Code, which established supplemental paid sick leave for employees at businesses that employ 500 or more employees nationally in response to the pandemic COVID-19 public health crisis. The supplemental paid sick leave under Chapter 8.200 expired on December 31, 2020. This urgency ordinance will extend supplemental paid sick leave until two calendar weeks after the expiration of the COVID-19 local emergency as ratified and declared by the Board. This urgency ordinance will also extend supplemental paid sick leave to employees at all businesses in the unincorporated areas of the County. This urgency ordinance will take immediate effect upon its approval by at least a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.”
Now Supplemental Agenda items 37-E and 37-F call for the Board to consider the Ordinance.
We hope these updates are helpful to you.
Fraternally,
SR Holguin, PC