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DCWP reports on worker restitution from paid sick leave and fair workweek laws
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Council Member Julie Menin inquires about the amount of worker restitution recouped from employers since the enactment of paid sick leave and fair workweek laws. DCWP representatives provide recent data on restitution amounts.
- DCWP doesn't have comprehensive data from the laws' inception but provides figures for the past three calendar years
- For paid safe and sick leave: $6 million in 2022, $3.1 million in 2023, and $3.9 million in 2024
- For Fair Workweek: $16.9 million in 2022, $8.3 million in 2023, and $4 million in 2024
Julie Menin
1:20:25
Yeah.
1:20:25
We would love to do that.
1:20:26
Now, I I think you might have mentioned this before, I just wanna make sure we get this down.
1:20:30
How much in worker restitution have you been able to recoup from employers since the passage of the paid sick leave law and the fair work week law were enacted?
1:20:39
So for both metrics would be great.
Vilda Vera Mayuga
1:20:42
Since the laws were passed?
1:20:43
Yes.
1:20:44
Okay.
1:20:44
Let me make sure.
1:20:56
So we don't have the number from back, like the ten years for Paid Save and Sick Leave Law and also for Fair Work Week, but we can most absolutely get it to you, chair.
Carlos Ortiz
1:21:08
But we can, we can give you I can give you right now the past, three calendar years for each law.
1:21:13
I'm a in for paid safe and sick leave, in 2022, '6 million.
1:21:18
Twenty '20 '3, '3 point '1 million.
1:21:20
Twenty '20 '4, '3 point '9 million.
1:21:23
And Fair Workweek, 2022, '16 point '9.
1:21:26
Twenty '20 '3, '8 point '3.
1:21:28
And $20.24, 4,000,000.