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The City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) enacted a law that states you may not "make, adopt, or enforce any rule or policy forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in personal relationships, organizations, activities, or otherwise restricting their freedom of association, unless said relationships, activities, or associations have a direct and actual impact on the employee's ability to perform their assigned responsibilities."1
The law does not prohibit you from "promulgating or enforcing rules or policies prohibiting conflicts of interest, which prohibit employees from making, participating in making, influencing or in tempting to influence decisions in which they have a financial interest."2
All employers located in or doing business within San Francisco are covered by the non-interference in personal relationships ordinance.
A covered employee (employee) is any person working for salary or wages within San Francisco, except members of the uniformed ranks of the police, sheriff and fire departments, police department communication dispatchers and any persons operating emergency service vehicles for San Francisco.3
San Francisco does not impose any administrative penalties or liability for employer violations. However, aggrieved employees may file a civil lawsuit for any violation of the ordinance. Remedies may include damages and attorneys' fees and costs.4
1. San Francisco Labor and Employment Code (L.E.C.), sec. 51.3
2. San Francisco L.E.C., sec 51.4
3. San Francisco L.E.C., sec 51.2
4. San Francisco L.E.C., sec 51.8(a)