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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: February 16, 2021 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-082 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number:10.B. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Fran Robustelli <br />Interim City Manager <br />BY:City Council <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Urgency Ordinance to <br />Require Large Grocery Stores in San Leandro to Pay Employees an Additional <br />Five Dollars per Hour in Temporary Hazard Pay During a Specified Period of <br />Time Associated with the Covid-19 Pandemic <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Per the City Council’s direction, staff presents this staff report and the attached draft urgency <br />ordinance. If adopted, it would require large retail grocery food stores in San Leandro to pay employees <br />an additional five dollars per hour in temporary “hazard pay” during a specified period of time associated <br />with the Covid-19 pandemic. <br />BACKGROUND <br />At the January 19, 2021 regular City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Aguilar made a request, which was <br />affirmed by a majority vote of the City Council, for staff to bring forward a discussion related to the <br />possible adoption of an ordinance that would require additional hourly pay for grocery store workers <br />during the Covid-19 pandemic. Per that request, staff developed the attached draft ordinance for the <br />City Council’s discussion and if so inclined, immediate consideration as an urgency ordinance. <br />If adopted, the urgency ordinance would impose a temporary $5 per hour increase (also referred to as <br />“hazard pay”) to the hourly wages earned by retail grocery store workers, as defined. It would require <br />covered employers to pay hazard pay to all covered employees for any pay period for 120 days from the <br />effective date of the ordinance, or during which the City of San Leandro is within a Widespread (purple), <br />Substantial (red) or Moderate (orange) Risk Level, and until such time as risk levels return to Minimal <br />(yellow) under State Health Orders, or until such time as all Covered Employers’ Covered Employees <br />are vaccinated, excluding those Covered Employees who are prevented from receipt of vaccination by <br />disability or sincerely held religious beliefs, whichever is later. <br />The ordinance would apply to employees of any retail food establishments as defined in the ordinance <br />that employ 300 or more employees nationwide, regardless of where those employees are employed, <br />including but not limited to chains, integrated enterprises, or franchises associated with a franchisor or <br />network of franchises. <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/11/2021 <br />297