Let the LA County Board of Supervisors Know that Public Health Councils Are Bad For Business
We need your help!
On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will receive an updated report from the County’s Department of Health and will vote on an ordinance to impose public health councils on businesses – large and small.
To date, in spite of the business community raising a number of concerns about the proposal’s over-reach, lack of effectiveness and intrusion into private-sector business operations, the Board is charging ahead.
Unless modified, the proposal before the Board would:
- Require that businesses allow employees to organize and would permit them to report potential health officer order violations to an outside “third party organization” contracted by the County
- Permit this “third party organization” to visit your business and engage with employees to determine what violations, if any, exist
- Seek to penalize employers unless they allow employees to organize and allow these third party groups unfettered access
- Run roughshod over state and federal laws that protect employers and employees
- Never end. The proposal contains no no sunset clause, meaning that these councils would continue forever – even after the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us.
The Board of Supervisors is ignoring its own data that show the overwhelming majority of businesses are in compliance with health officer orders.
The Board should be doing everything in its power to help the County’s businesses keep the doors open and employers and customers safe. This rushed proposal will not help us achieve that goal.
Contact the Board and let them know that you and your business oppose the public health officer proposal.
Let the LA County Board of Supervisors Know that Public Health Councils Are Bad For Business
We need your help!
On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will receive an updated report from the County’s Department of Health and will vote on an ordinance to impose public health councils on businesses – large and small.
To date, in spite of the business community raising a number of concerns about the proposal’s over-reach, lack of effectiveness and intrusion into private-sector business operations, the Board is charging ahead.
Unless modified, the proposal before the Board would:
- Require that businesses allow employees to organize and would permit them to report potential health officer order violations to an outside “third party organization” contracted by the County
- Permit this “third party organization” to visit your business and engage with employees to determine what violations, if any, exist
- Seek to penalize employers unless they allow employees to organize and allow these third party groups unfettered access
- Run roughshod over state and federal laws that protect employers and employees
- Never end. The proposal contains no no sunset clause, meaning that these councils would continue forever – even after the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us.
The Board of Supervisors is ignoring its own data that show the overwhelming majority of businesses are in compliance with health officer orders.
The Board should be doing everything in its power to help the County’s businesses keep the doors open and employers and customers safe. This rushed proposal will not help us achieve that goal.
Contact the Board and let them know that you and your business oppose the public health officer proposal.