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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Urgency Ordinance to Require Large Grocery Stores in San Leandro to Pay Employees an Additional Five Dollars per Hour in Temporary Hazard Pay During a Specified Period of Time Associated with the Covid-19 Pandemic
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Per the City Council's direction, staff presents this staff report and the attached draft urgency ordinance. If adopted, it would require large retail grocery food stores in San Leandro to pay employees an additional five dollars per hour in temporary "hazard pay" during a specified period of time associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
BACKGROUND
At the January 19, 2021 regular City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Aguilar made a request, which was affirmed by a majority vote of the City Council, for staff to bring forward a discussion related to the possible adoption of an ordinance that would require additional hourly pay for grocery store workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Per that request, staff developed the attached draft ordinance for the City Council's discussion and if so inclined, immediate consideration as an urgency ordinance.
If adopted, the urgency ordinance would impose a temporary $5 per hour increase (also referred to as "hazard pay") to the hourly wages earned by retail grocery store workers, as defined. It would require covered employers to pay hazard pay to all covered employees for any pay period for 120 days from the effective date of the ordinance, or during which the City of San Leandro is within a Widespread (purple), Substantial (red) or Moderate (orange) Risk Level, and until such time as risk levels return to Minimal (yellow) under State Health Orders, or until such time as all Covered Employers' Covered Employees are vaccinated, excluding those Covered Employees who are prevented from receipt of vaccination by disability or sincerely held religious beliefs, whichever is later[BK1][PRR2].
The ordinance would apply to e...
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