Update on Minimum Wage Law and Rent Ordinance

by Beyond Chron (reposted)

Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:48AM

The minimum wage implementation and enforcement ordinance on Tuesday’s agenda at the Board of Supervisor’s meeting was pushed back a week. The legislation seeks to enforce the minimum wage law that was passed in San Francisco in 2003. The ordinance would amend current law to require employers to pay an annual fee that would help fund the city in its effort to implement the new minimum wage standard. Although it is set at $8.50, thousands of workers haven’t benefited from the increase because the city doesn’t have the resources to see it enforced in all places of employment.

Its delay on Tuesday was not any real sort of setback. Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who designed the legislation, said simply that more time was needed in order to prepare it in full for the Board. The word from Maxwell’s office was that a final agreement on the particulars of the ordinance had not been agreed upon between the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor.

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