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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 September 23, 2020 Los Angeles City Council meeting agenda. There is one item in particular that could impact you.

Workers Who Could Be Impacted: City of LA Workers Performing Jobs That Are in the Jurisdiction of the County of LA

On May 19, 2020, a Motion was introduced by Councilmember Monica Rodriguez (7th District) and seconded by Councilmember Paul Krekorian (2nd District).

The Motion provided in part “[a]s the City looks for ways to adequately deliver services while reducing its expenditures, it has also ramped up services related to the ongoing emergency, including a number of which are more in line with the responsibilities of the County of Los Angeles. These include the Fire Department running COVID-19 testing sites, the Department of Recreation and Parks operating temporary homeless shelters, and LAPD providing security at shelter sites. Other departments have also been working hard on the COVID-19 response, and many are performing duties that would be better suited for County departments. As the City continues to address the pandemic and deal with reduced resources, every effort should be taken to ensure that the City is reimbursed for services provided in response to COVID-19, and that City staff are not performing County duties without a plan to hand them off.”

Therefore, the Motion instructed “the City Administrative Officer [to] identify duties currently being performed by City workers as a result of the public health emergency; create a plan to phase City workers out of jobs that are in the jurisdiction of the County where currently possible and make a plan on how to do so for areas that it is not; seek full reimbursement from the County for services provided by City workers that will not be reimbursed by the state or federal governments; and, identify other areas, including in the provision of services to care for the County’s homeless by the Department of Recreation and Parks that would be better handled by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and other County entities as the pandemic continues.”

On May 19, 2020, the Motion was referred to the City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee. However, on June 11, 2020, Council President Nury Martinez (6th District) changed the committee the Motion was referred to, and instead referred it to the City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Recovery and Neighborhood Investment.

On September 2, 2020, the City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Recovery and Neighborhood Investment held a special meeting to consider the motion. The Committee approved the Motion and forwarded it to the City Council for its consideration.

Agenda item 22 of the of the September 23, 2020 Los Angeles City Council meeting calls for the full City Council’s consideration of the Motion.

We hope these updates are helpful to you.

Fraternally,

SR Holguin, PC