San Francisco Enacts Flexible Work Arrangement Ordinance

San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee (D) has signed an Ordinance allowing employees working in the City to request flexible work arrangements to care for a child, family member with a serious health condition, or parent over age 65 without retaliation. Employers must consider employees’ requests and must provide business reasons for denying them. San Francisco joins the State of Vermont, which enacted similar legislation in May 2013, in adding another dimension to employee leave management. The Ordinance becomes operative January 1, 2014.