It is our commitment to provide you with the most updated information as it becomes available. Please send your HR related questions to COVID.HR.Questions@SFMTA.com.
HR COVID-19 Page
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City Emergency Child and Youth Care Services
The city is providing free emergency child and youth care to essential employees that meet certain criteria. Visit the city's information and registration link page. If you have trouble registering, contact rpdinfo@sfgov.org or 628-652-2900 (Reference access code: 954322)
Frontline Worker Housing Program
San Francisco’s Front-Line Worker Housing (FLWH) Program provides complimentary hotel accommodations to City workers who are directly impacted by or face greater exposure to COVID-19 while performing essential duties.
COVID-19 Testing
The City is providing appointment-only COVID-19 testing for SFMTA operators at no cost at: https://sf.gov/get-tested-covid-19-citytestsf. The results will be shared with designated SFMTA Human Resources staff to ensure that proper follow-up occurs. Employees who go for testing and are symptomatic need to remain out of the workplace until they receive their test result. An employee who receives a positive test result will need to remain out of the workplace for at least 14 days.
Disaster Service Workers (DSW)
Floating Holidays
For regularly scheduled employees performing essential services who must remain in the workplace, SFMTA will provide 8 hours of floating holidays (FHP) for every 40 hours of regularly scheduled hours worked (WKP) in the workplace (i.e., 0.2 FHP hours for every hour of WKP), up to a maximum of 80 hours of floating holiday over the duration of the emergency. Part-time employees are eligible for a prorated number of hours. SFMTA will credit these floating holiday hours in the first full pay period after the end of the emergency. As with other floating holidays, these hours are not subject to cash out.
Additional 80 Hours of Sick Time (cov)
Additional SFMTA Paid Sick Leave Allocation (COV). The SFMTA provided all regularly scheduled employees an additional 80 hours of new paid sick leave that employees can use for any sick leave related purpose (i.e., not limited to COVID19 related reasons) and for school closures. Part-time employees receive a pro-rated number of hours. Employees hired on or after April 2, 2020, are not eligible for these additional sick pay hours. SFMTA will use a specific pay code for this additional sick leave (e.g., pay code 'COV'). This additional sick leave expires on December 31, 2020. Additional update as of 4/13: The COV sick time does not need to be used before ESP is applied.
