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"Adverse action" means reducing the compensation to a designated worker, garnishing gratuities, temporarily or permanently denying or limiting access to work, incentives, or bonuses, offering less desirable work, demoting, terminating, deactivating, putting a designated worker on hold status, failing to rehire after a seasonal interruption of work, threatening, penalizing, retaliating, or otherwise discriminating against a designated worker for any reason prohibited by this Ordinance. "Adverse action" also encompasses any action by the hiring entity or a person acting on the hiring entity's behalf that would dissuade a designated worker from exercising any right afforded by this Ordinance. "Aggrieved party" means a designated worker or other person who suffers tangible or intangible harm due to a hiring entity or other person's violation of this Ordinance. "City" means the City of Santa Ana. "Designated worker" means a grocery worker or retail pharmacy worker employed by a hiring entity who is entitled to premium pay pursuant to this Ordinance. "Grocery worker" means a worker employed by a hiring entity at a grocery store for hourly compensation, including a worker who has full-time employment, part-time employment, joint employment, temporary employment, or employment through the services of a temporary services or staffing agency. "Grocery store" means a store that devotes seventy percent (70%) or more of its business to retailing a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged, and/or a store that has at least ten thousand square feet (10,000 sf) of floor space dedicated to retailing a general range of food products. There is a rebuttable presumption that if a store receives seventy percent (70%) or more revenue from retailing a general range of food products, or if a store has at least ten thousand square feet (10,000 sf) of floor space dedicated to retailing a general range of food products, then it qualifies as a grocery store. "Hiring entity" means a grocery store or retail pharmacy that employs over three hundred (300) workers nationally and employs more than fifteen (15) employees per grocery store location or retail pharmacy location in the City of Santa Ana. For purposes of this section, the number of workers counted toward the national total shall encompass all employees who work for compensation, including employees not covered by this Ordinance. "Premium pay" means cash compensation owed to a designated worker that is in addition to the worker's existing base salary, commissions, tips, gratuities, bonuses, or any other form of payment owed to the worker, including, but not Ordinance No. NS-3002 Page 4 of 11