In Violation Of Unique City Health Care Law, Archdiocese To Pay $3M For Employees’ Coverage
A San Francisco law requires businesses with more than 20 employees who work at least eight hours a week in San Francisco to make payments toward the workers’ health coverage.
San Francisco Chronicle:
SF Archdiocese Ordered To Pay $3 Million In Health Care Costs
City officials have ordered the San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese to pay nearly $3 million in health care costs for more than 1,000 employees after finding that it failed to make years of payments required by a pioneering local health care law. San Francisco has also assessed the archdiocese $113,000 in penalties. (Egelko, 1/29)
In other news from across the state —
KPBS Public Media:
Roundtable Special Edition: San Diego's Homeless Crisis
The annual point-in-time homeless count takes place Friday, and the results may be quite uncomfortable to hear. The count, taken by the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, aims to tally adults and youth who live on the streets as well as those in shelters, which include transitional housing, emergency shelters and safe havens. In January, 2016, 8,692 persons were counted as homeless countywide, down slightly from 2015, according to the Regional Task Force. (Finn and Sauer, 1/27)