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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 October 27, 2020 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda. There are two items in particular that could impact you.
1. Workers Who Could Be Impacted: County of Los Angeles Employees
Agenda Items 1-D and 11 “Funding for Disaster Service Workers Election Workers”
Agenda items 1-D and 11 are identical with the exception that agenda item 1-D calls for the Board to act in their capacity as The Los Angeles County Development Authority, and agenda item 11 calls for the Board to act in their capacity as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
For both agenda items, a Motion will be introduced by Supervisor Sheila Kuehl (3rd District). The Motion provides “[o]n August 4, 2020, the Board of Supervisors suspended the County Employee Election Worker Program and directed the Director of the Office of Emergency Management to work with the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC), the Department of Human Resources (DHR), and County Counsel to adopt a new Disaster Services Worker (DSW) Program for the November 3, 2020 election. On September 1, 2020, RR/CC and DHR sent a joint memo to Department Heads outlining the number of DSW required from each County Department to support the general election. Overtime expenses for employees assigned as DSW election workers will be reimbursed by the RR/CC. The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) has assigned 64 employees to serve as DSW election workers. Because the LACDA’s budget system is separate from the County’s, it is necessary for the RR/CC and the LACDA to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in order to transfer funds to the LACDA for reimbursement of employees serving as DSW election workers.”
Therefore, the Motion calls for “the Board of Supervisors [to] authorize the Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk or his designee to execute an MOU with the LACDA to transfer up to $230,000 from the RR/CC operating budget to LACDA to reimburse the cost of LACDA employees serving as DSW election workers during the November 3, 2020 general election.” The Motion further calls for “the Board of Supervisors, acting as the commissioners of the Los Angeles County Development Authority [to] authorize the Acting Executive Director of the LACDA or his designee to execute an MOU with the RR/CC to accept $230,000 to reimburse the cost of LACDA employees serving as DSW election workers during the November 3, 2020 general election, and to incorporate these funds as needed into the LACDA’s approved Fiscal Year 2020-2021 budget.”
2. Workers Who Could Be Impacted: County of Los Angeles Employees
Agenda Item 60: “County Code, Title 5 – Personnel Amendment”
An Ordinance will be introduced to amend County Code, Title 5. According to the Ordinance Analysis prepared by the Principal Deputy County Counsel of the Labor & Employment Division, “[t]his ordinance amends Title 5 – Personnel of the Los Angeles County Code relating to the County of Los Angeles Savings Plan (the ‘Savings Plan’), by amending Section 5.26.100 to discontinue the combined annual low deferral limit for certain employees who contribute to both the Savings Plan and the County of Los Angeles Deferred Compensation and Thrift Plan (Horizons) beginning January 1, 2021.”
We hope these updates are helpful to you.
Fraternally,
SR Holguin, PC