SEC. 11.100. GENERAL.
§ 11.100
The Mayor, through the Human Resources Director, must meet and confer with city employees or their unions about compensation, benefits, and working conditions, and propose memoranda of understanding to the Board of Supervisors for approval or rejection by majority vote. If the Board rejects a memorandum, it must extend the deadline for final submission of ordinances by 45 days.
The city's Human Resources Director, working for the Mayor, negotiates employment deals with city workers and their unions. These deals cover pay, benefits, and working conditions. The Human Resources Director sends the agreed-upon deal to the Mayor, who then sends it to the Board of Supervisors. The Board votes to accept or reject it. If the Board approves it, the Board must pass laws to pay for the approved salaries, benefits, and conditions. If the Board rejects a deal, they automatically get 45 extra days to make a final decision on the salary and benefits ordinance.
- Complex:The section has cross-references to other Charter sections (A8.409-4 and A8.590-5), a conditional clause about 45-day extensions that depends on rejection, and overlapping procedural steps that require careful reading to distinguish between proposal, approval, and ordinance enactment.
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Official text
Subject to this Charter and consistent with state law, the Mayor through the Human Resources Director or his/her designee and in consultation with the Board of Supervisors shall be responsible for meeting and conferring with employees or their recognized employee organizations regarding salaries, working conditions, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment to be embodied in memoranda of understanding. The Human Resources Director shall assume day-to-day administration of all labor relations responsibilities previously vested in the Mayor or Board of Supervisors.
The Human Resources Director shall submit proposed memoranda of understanding including, where applicable, schedules of compensation, benefits and working conditions to the Mayor, who upon approval shall forward the proposed memoranda of understanding to the Board of Supervisors for determination by a majority vote. The Board of Supervisors shall have the power to accept or reject such memoranda of understanding. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors, upon approval of any such memoranda of understanding to enact appropriate ordinances authorizing payment of any compensation or benefits or other terms and conditions of employment so approved.
Nothing in this section shall supersede any dates specified in Sections A8.409-4 and A8.590-5, or elsewhere in this Charter for fixing compensation, except that. should the Board of Supervisors reject any memorandum of understanding and/or schedule of compensation and benefits, the Board of Supervisors shall by motion simultaneously extend by 45 days from the date of rejection the date for final submission to the Board of Supervisors of ordinances approving or adopting salary, benefits and/or working conditions pursuant to such sections.
(Amended by Proposition A, Approved 11/5/2009)