S.F.’s Minimum Wage, Highest in the Nation, Eludes Thousands as Enforcement...
10-year-old reform unfinished as businesses routinely flout $10.55 mandate, labor activists sayWhile San Francisco’s minimum wage is the highest in the nation, thousands of workers still earn below the...
View ArticleDespite Lowered Expectations, Officials Still Say America’s Cup Will Bring...
The America’s Cup may not turn out to be the benefit to San Francisco that city leaders and private boosters once promised. But the city’s economic development officials still say taxpayers can break...
View ArticleCalifornia Eliminating ‘Wasteful’ Enterprise Zones
Enterprise zones — which were created to offer tax breaks for companies creating jobs in economically depressed areas of the state — are on the way out in California, to be replaced by a range of more...
View ArticleLess Than Expected: Minimum Wage Violations in San Francisco (Video)
Mauricio Lozano, a Salvadoran immigrant, was paid below minimum wage to work at a North Beach pizzeria. With the help of local nonprofit organization, Young Workers United, and the San Francisco City...
View ArticleHELP WANTED: City Hall Focuses on Hot Job Sectors, but Struggles to Track...
Behind the ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ mantra — Auditor says S.F.’s fractured workforce development system needs new strategySix years ago, San Francisco politicians called for better coordination of job...
View ArticleBig Businesses Use State Tax Fund to Train Their Own Staff
Some subsidies, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, are awarded to multinational corporations valued in the billionsState subsidies for vocational training might provide a windfall to large...
View ArticleSummer Youth Employment Stretches San Francisco Job Statistics
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has repeatedly proclaimed that a city-sponsored youth employment program “created” more than 5,000 jobs last year. This year the same program, Summer Jobs+, placed more than...
View ArticleCity Construction Course Offers Job Placements, but Excludes Many Who Could...
Rigorous screening limits candidates, who are groomed for union apprenticeshipsThe good news: San Francisco offers a free 18-week training course through City College that takes low-skill, out-of-work...
View ArticleCounting Costs for S.F. Workforce Development Programs
City programs offering workforce development services range from simple access to a job-listings database to a full-time, 18-week certification course that funnels graduates into union...
View ArticleJobs, Jobs, Jobs: What Ed Lee Has Promised
In the two and a half years since he became mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee has predicted that his economic development efforts across the board would yield hundreds of thousands of new jobs for San...
View ArticleFollowing S.F.’s Lead, Cities Leapfrog State in Race to Raise Minimum Wage
San Diego, San Jose avoid Sacramento’s political quagmire, but encounter enforcement problemsThe momentum to increase the minimum wage that is building in San Francisco and other localities across...
View ArticleA Minimum Wage Increase Means Nothing if Your Boss Is a Scofflaw
Earlier this month, San Francisco voters chose by an overwhelming margin to raise the local minimum wage. In a telltale sign of how undeniable the city’s income disparity has become, no major group...
View ArticleRestaurant Worker Paid Below Minimum Wage for ‘Training’
Food-service sector among worst violators of wage laws nationally and in San FranciscoUPDATE 8/7/13: See video version: “Less Than Expected: Minimum Wage Violations in San Francisco”Last year,...
View ArticleIndigenous People Face Obstacles Seeking Legal Pay
Mayas from Yucatán find work in food service, but face language, immigration barriersFew are more susceptible to the crime of wage theft than indigenous newcomers from Latin America, say labor experts,...
View ArticleS.F.’s Minimum Wage, Highest in the Nation, Eludes Thousands as Enforcement...
10-year-old reform unfinished as businesses routinely flout $10.55 mandate, labor activists saySEE ALSO: Listen to discussion of S.F.'s minimum wage enforcement on KALW Radio’s “Your Call” Friday Media...
View ArticleDespite Lowered Expectations, Officials Still Say America’s Cup Will Bring...
The America’s Cup may not turn out to be the benefit to San Francisco that city leaders and private boosters once promised. But the city’s economic development officials still say taxpayers can break...
View ArticleCalifornia Eliminating ‘Wasteful’ Enterprise Zones
Enterprise zones — which were created to offer tax breaks for companies creating jobs in economically depressed areas of the state — are on the way out in California, to be replaced by a range of more...
View ArticleLess Than Expected: Minimum Wage Violations in San Francisco (Video)
Mauricio Lozano, a Salvadoran immigrant, was paid below minimum wage to work at a North Beach pizzeria. With the help of local nonprofit organization, Young Workers United, and the San Francisco City...
View ArticleHELP WANTED: City Hall Focuses on Hot Job Sectors, but Struggles to Track...
Behind the ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ mantra — Auditor says S.F.’s fractured workforce development system needs new strategySix years ago, San Francisco politicians called for better coordination of job...
View ArticleBig Businesses Use State Tax Fund to Train Their Own Staff
Some subsidies, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, are awarded to multinational corporations valued in the billionsState subsidies for vocational training might provide a windfall to large...
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