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Jagannathan, Priya
Perez, Dana
FW: Measure FF followup
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:02:33 PM

From: Jagannathan, Priya

Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:26 AM
To: Kim, Peter; Taylor, Sandra
Cc: Sara Bedford (SBedford@oaklandnet.com)
Subject: Measure FF followup

Hi Peter and Sandy

If you give me your email list (agencies who received the survey), I can
send it out and cc you and whichever staff you want. Orif you would like to send it out, please cc me
and Sara and change the last sentence to include my name.
I am thinking that you would want to include each agencys survey response in their file.
Let me know if you have any questions, and/or if we need to meet about this.
Thanks
Priya

Dear City of Oakland funded agency,

Thank you for taking the time to complete our brief survey that will assist us in analyzing the
applicability of Measure FF to participants in your program. As you know, effective March 2, 2015,
any employee who works at least two (2) hours in a particular workweek and in the geographic
boundaries of the city of Oakland is entitled to at least the minimum wage of $12.25/hour. These
employees are similarly entitled to paid sick leave that accrues on an hourly basis.

We are relying on your responses as the foundation for our analysis into your program and Measure
FF. If you responded that participants are considered employees, then contact your program officer
to negotiate an appropriate budget amendment since you will need to comply with Measure FF if
you do not already do so.

Some of you informed us that your participants are not treated as nor are they considered
employees and then subsequently, however, indicated that though the participants are not
employees, they are paid on an hourly basis and receive a Form W2 at the end of the year. It is
important that you ensure your participants are properly classified under the law, and in turn, are
compensated appropriately. Thus, you may wish to consult legal counsel to confirm the legal
accuracy of your responses. If you choose to do so, please do not hesitate in letting us know if any
of your responses differ from your initial response.

Please note that grantees within similar funded strategies area may view participants differently,
leading to the possibility that participants may be paid at different rates for similar City of Oakland
funded program.

If you have questions about any of the above, please do not hesitate to contact me via email
(pjagannathan@oaklandnet.com) or phone (510-238-2360).

Thank you,
Priya

Priya Jagannathan
City of Oakland Department of Human Services
150 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 4340
Oakland, CA 94612
phone 510-238-2360
fax 510-238-7207
Please note: I am in the office Monday - Thursday 8:30-2:30 p.m.