Coronavirus Rio Hondo College: Employees with Compromised Immune Systems

Superintendent/President, Dr. Arturo Reyes;

I am asking you to please take action, under your extraordinary emergency authority granted to you by the Board of Trustees, to allow employees with compromised immune systems at Rio Hondo College to work from home immediately. Please rescind the use of sick leave and vacation time used by this population to protect themselves. Rio Hondo College should be seriously concerned for the most vulnerable of our employees. We should not wait for the State to compel us to take such action. Instead Rio Hondo College should do what’s right, now. The most vulnerable in our society, under these circumstances, are the aged over 65 and those with compromised immune systems.

Dr. Reyes, it would be in the best interest of our employees and the community that the most vulnerable employees be allowed to voluntarily choose to work from home immediately and not have to use their sick leave or vacation time to protect themselves.

As always is a pleasure and privilege to serve,

Gary Mendez
Governing Board Member