San Jose Ca.Gov
File #: 21-691    Version: 1
Type: Strategic Support Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/30/2021 In control: Joint Meeting for the Rules and Open Government Committee and Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 4/13/2021 Final action:
Title: Return Together.
Attachments: 1. Memorandum, 2. Supplemental from City Attorney, 3. Ordinance a.1, 4. Ordinance a.2, 5. Letter from Assemblymember Kalra, 6. Letters from the Public

...Title

Return Together.

...Recommendation

As recommended by the Rules and Open Government Committee on March 24, 2021:

(a)  City Council take the following action:

 (1)  Adopt an uncodified urgency ordinance requiring certain specified employers to offer reemployment to any worker laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic if the employer is hiring for the same or substantially similar job formerly held by the laid off worker, and setting forth the facts constituting the urgency; and

 (2)  Approve an uncodified ordinance requiring certain specified employers to offer reemployment to any worker laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic if the employer is hiring for the same or substantially similar job formerly held by the laid off worker.

PLEASE NOTE: APPROVAL OF THIS URGENCY ORDINANCE REQUIRES 8 OR MORE AFFIRMATIVE VOTES. City Charter Section 605(d).

(b)  If the City Council is unable to take the action in part “a” of this recommendation by the required vote of eight (8) City Council members, approve an uncodified ordinance requiring certain specified employers to offer reemployment to any worker laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic if the employer is hiring for the same or substantially similar job formerly held by the laid off worker.

CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-008, General Procedure and Policy Making resulting in no changes to the physical environment. (Peralez, Jimenez and Cohen)

[Rules Committee referral 3/24/2021 - Item G.3]