Q&A
Staffing for delivery worker protection enforcement
0:20:20
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Council Member Julie Menin inquires about the number of staff members working on delivery worker protection issues. Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga provides information on staffing and addresses concerns about the low restitution amount.
- The Office of Labor Policy and Standards has just under 40 staff members
- These staff are not assigned solely to delivery worker protection laws but handle all worker protection laws
- The council member expresses concern about the low restitution amount of $30,000 and asks for explanations and potential solutions
- The discussion highlights the need for potentially more resources to increase enforcement effectiveness
Julie Menin
0:20:20
How many staff members do you have working on these issues?
Vilda Vera Mayuga
0:20:25
So we have just under 40 staff in the Office of Labor Policy and Standards.
0:20:29
They're not assigned solely to delivery worker protection laws and their enforcement.
0:20:34
That is for all of our worker protection laws.
Julie Menin
0:20:36
Yeah.
0:20:36
I'm just concerned about that 30,000 metric.
0:20:39
It's very, very low.
0:20:40
So I'd wanna better understand why it's so low and what can be done to increase that number, whether it's an increase in if you don't have the staff that you properly need because you're being asked to go and pulled into a lot of different, directions, I know, on a lot of these labor policies.
0:20:57
So that is of concern.
0:20:59
So I wanna better understand that.
