AN ORDINANCE relating to employment in Seattle; amending Sections 14.16.010, 14.16.015, 14.16.020, 14.16.025, 14.16.030, 14.16.040, 14.16.045, 14.16.050, 14.16.055, 14.16.120, 14.22.010, and 14.22.020 of the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) to strengthen and clarify labor standards requirements for paid sick and paid safe time and secure scheduling; and amending the name of Chapter 14.22 of the SMC to make a technical correction.
Of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Agenda Item 2010 Table 119 145 Related to employment in Seattle, amending sections 14.16 point zero, 10.0, 15.0, 20.0, 25.0 3.0. 40.0. 45.0. 50.3 55.1 22.011 ten 10.0 20 of the Services Code and strengthening the clarifying labor standards requirements for paid sick and paid safe time and secure scheduling and amending the name of Chapter 14.22 of the Senate Code to make Technical Corrections Committee Recommend Single Pass. Thank you very much. Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. This legislation was passed out of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee on November 28th. We held it before bringing it to full council because we had some amendments to work on that. I know Councilmember Musgrave is intending to speak on, but we needed to move it out of committee at that meeting and to ensure that it would actually pass the full council before the end of the year, which was required by Initiative 1433. The the ordinance itself updates the city's paid sick. In Safe Leave law to reflect changes in state law from the voters passage of Initiative 1433. Some of the specific changes include allowing use of leave to take care for a child, which is already in the existing legislation. But it changes how we how we define that. So it includes sibling and grandchildren. In addition, Tier one employers under our law had to have for a minimum of four employees in order to be considered Tier one. This new law now covers employers, even if they only have one employee. Then finally, there are two other primary changes. One is that our existing paid sick and safe leave allows annual caps on the use of paid sick and save time. Now, caps on the annual use are not going to be permitted moving forward because that is what is required in the initiative that the voters passed. And finally, one piece that we have in our law is that even though employees start accruing paid, sick and safe leave, the first day they wait, they start working. There was a waiting period of 90 calendar days from the start of employment before employees could start using that. That that accrual in our original ordinance, the waiting period was 180 days. So this legislation will change it to 90 days, which again is consistent with state law. And then finally, there is a specific requirement related to what happens when somebody who has accrued, paid sick or safe leave leaves their employment, but then returns to that employment and whether or not their leave can be reinstated. In our legislation, you could have it be reinstated if you only if you were gone for less than seven months under this new change. Paid sick and safe leave must be reinstated, even if the break is a 12 month break in employment. Very good. Councilmember Mesquita. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that we consider Amendment one harmonizing language and Amendment two regarding the waiver extension together, if possible. I think we better vote on them individually, but I think let's go with amendment number one. First, you want to describe it just a little bit and we'll get a second. Which is it been described adequately to everyone? Satisfaction. Okay. It's been moved to second. So Amendment number one is removed. And second and all those in favor of amendment number one, say I, I oppose the ayes have it. And then I would like to move amendment number two. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that we consider amendment number 2/2. To moved in second and for amendment number two. All those in favor say I oppose. The ayes have it. Okay, so now we have an amended base legislation. Any further comments on the legislation? I think it would be great to just talk a little bit about what particularly Amendment two does if Councilmember Mosquito would indulge us and give us a quick overview. I think it was an important enough issue that came up in committee that little daylight and transparency would be useful. Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you, Madam Chair. I think you guys are the ones who are indulging me. So thank you to our council colleagues. And thank you, Mr. President. This is a really exciting day. We have worked long and hard in the city of Seattle to lead the nation in paid sick and safe leave . And because of your work over the last five and six years, we were now able to pass Initiative 1433 statewide with over 60, with almost 60% of the vote. And today is a really incredible day that we're able to now put the city law in harmonization with the state law. Thank you to director or who's in the audience with us as well for the work to try to harmonize this legislation. As you heard from Councilmember Herbold, there's a number of provisions that are slightly different. And I think the state initiative builds on the success of the city of Seattle. And in an effort to make sure that we give our contractors, that we give our employers and our workers enough time to get into harmony. Harmony. We have suggested an amendment to that. We honor existing collective bargaining agreements that will be negotiated or are currently in existence through the end of 2018 and through the life of those contracts. Recognizing that the intent is to make sure that everyone in the city is able to benefit from paid sick and safe leave. It's a public health issue. It's an economic justice issue. And we want to make sure that we also respect the opportunity for folks to negotiate and get up to speed. So I look forward to working with Director Ore and the stakeholders, business and labor to make sure that we have everybody around the table and talk about expectations at the end of 2018 or at the end of those contracts. I'm also very pleased, if you look at the suggested amendment in front of you, it clearly states in to sub B that this this Office of Labor Standards has incorporated all of initiative 1433 into our Chapter 1416 giving our Office of Labor Standards the tools needed to make sure that we're implementing our law, plus the new state law as well. To the extent that those provisions go above the state law, we will allow for that waiver to continue. But I think it's a great compromise with business and labor and I look forward to 2018 and further discussions. Thank you. Council Member Skinner Okay. Any further comments on that? You're not a number 20. We're good. Okay. Please call the roll on the passage of the amended bill. Make sure. Gonzalez I herbold. Johnson Let's get to I. O'Brien. Hi. President Harrell high seven in favor and. Unopposed bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read the next agenda item. You can read a short title. The Report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee Agenda Item 21 Capsule 119 151 relating to Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority Committee recommends the bill passed.