Overview
- The executive order establishes the Mayor’s Office of Worker Power as a city hub to educate private‑sector workers, connect them to unions and gather worker input for policy.
- Tony Perlstein, a longtime union organizer, was named the office’s first executive director and will report to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su.
- The office itself will not organize workers or carry independent enforcement authority, and City Hall has not disclosed its budget or staff size.
- The order tells the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the Commission on Human Rights to design procedures for proactively investigating employers without a worker complaint and to pursue pay owed to all affected workers.
- Labor advocates praised the move as a boost for vulnerable workers while small‑business groups warned proactive probes could expand investigations of employers; the initiative builds on recent enforcement wins such as $104 million recovered for delivery workers in deceptive‑tipping cases.