San Francisco city attorney permitted to sue companies that abruptly cut janitorial security jobs

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco City Attorney is now authorized to bring civil action against janitorial, security and building maintenance contracting companies if they abruptly terminate jobs. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance on Tuesday that aims to better protect workers from unlawful layoffs. The ordinance comes after 48 Twitter custodians were abruptly fired in December after the social media company cut ties with Flagship, a janitorial company. Janitors marched from City Hall to the Twitter Headquarters on Market Street to demand their jobs back, which they alleged they lost without severance or proper notice.…