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Discussion of Intro 1081 and worker notification practices
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Council Member Menin and Commissioner Mayuga discuss the proposed Intro 1081 and current practices for notifying workers about their complaints.
- DCWP supports codifying the 30-day worker notification requirement into law
- Current practice is to notify workers of complaint receipt within 30 days or less
- Notification is nearly instantaneous for complaints filed through the online portal or by phone
- A small number of mailed complaints may take longer to process due to physical mail handling
Julie Menin
0:17:04
So for the new lines that you that that are in the January plan, the will they cover these laws or no?
0:17:11
They're more for the hotel licensing, the broker fee bill, financial literacy.
0:17:16
Correct.
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3 areas.
0:17:17
Okay.
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Understood.
0:17:20
In terms of, you know, you mentioned in your testimony, about 1081.
0:17:29
So the goal obviously is always to protect workers and to protect against any type of retaliation.
0:17:39
In terms of so your view is that this would codify notification to workers within 30 days.
0:17:48
We obviously don't wanna do anything to, in any way, jeopardize workers in terms of from the employer standpoint, so I'm fine with a friendly amendment to that.
0:17:58
Any other thoughts on codifying the 30 day worker notification part of the bill?
Vilda Vera Mayuga
0:18:05
Fully support that, council member.
0:18:07
I mean, it is, part of our practice to notify workers of receipt of their complaint within the 30 days, even less than that in practice right now.
0:18:16
So we are, in favor of codifying that practice into law.
Julie Menin
0:18:23
And how and at what point are you notifying a complainant that their complaint has been received?
Vilda Vera Mayuga
0:18:32
It's pretty instantaneous right now because of technology again.
0:18:37
Especially if somebody files a complaint through our portal, there's an automatic message that they receive that assigned assigns them a number so that they can use that number for any questions they may have.
0:18:49
If they do it by phone, then they're already speaking with a live person who will provide that information as well.
0:18:56
So it's pretty instantaneous at the moment.
0:18:57
I mean, there's a very small number that we instantaneous at the moment.
0:18:58
I mean, there's a very small number that we may receive on the mail, and then we'll those will take a little longer because of snail mail, but it's pretty instantaneous right now.
Julie Menin
0:19:09
Okay.
0:19:09
I also wanna mention we've been joined by council member Osei.
0:19:12
And just for his benefit, I wanna mention that the commissioner just mentioned I don't know if you heard when when you were walking in.
0:19:18
There are gonna be additional lines, 15 lines.
0:19:21
Right?
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15?
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Correct?
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15 lines?
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Or you're not committing to the note?
0:19:25
I don't remember the exact number.
0:19:27
They're they're getting additional lines at DCWP that are in the January plan that are meant to implement the hotel licensing bill, the broker bill, and financial literacy.
0:19:36
So just wanna make sure you heard that and
Christopher Leon Johnson
0:19:38
And Carlos let me know about that too.