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Consider Directing Staff to Enact a Policy to Give All City Employees the Option to Use Any Paid Leave, such as Sick, Vacation, or Other Paid Time Off, to Supplement Pay while out on Paid Family Leave. (Councilmember Vella)
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.
3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Malia Vella
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 11/6/19
Council Meeting date: 12/3/19
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
California Paid Family Leave (PFL) provides partial pay to employees who need to take time off from work to care for a seriously ill family member (child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or registered domestic partner) or to bond with a new child entering the family through birth, adoption or foster care placement. While the partial pay is helpful, most families rely on their full pay in order to cover the high cost of living in the Bay Area. Taking a pay cut when there is a new addition to the family or when another income-earning family member is unable to work hurts families and makes it difficult for them to fully use PFL.
State law permits employees on Paid Family Leave to use sick, vacation, or other Paid Time Off to supplement their PFL wage replacement and make them whole.
Direct staff to enact a policy to permit all city employees, to, at the employee's option, use any paid leave (sick, vacation, or other paid time off, including but not ...
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