Vitus Leung

Appointed August 25, 2023 by Mayor London Breed

Commissioner Vitus Leung has enjoyed an extensive career in human resources, primarily in traditional employee and labor relations, contract bargaining and organizational development & restructuring on behalf of public and non-profit employers.

He began his long-distinguished career as a union representative in San Francisco and during his 12-year tenure, earned the respect from union leadership, members, employer representatives, policy makers and elected/appointed officials as a collaborator, consensus builder and a “think outside of the box” problem solver. He negotiated a number of signature labor agreements, including an historic addendum labor agreement with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to seismically upgrade and repair the aging Hetch Hetchy Water System. He also helped navigate strategies to successfully effect policy changes and implement policy reforms to improve the lives and working conditions for their memberships.

Commissioner Leung later worked for the City and County of San Francisco in Human Resources serving as their Manager of Employee & Labor Relations and later as Director of Human Resources with the General Services Agency (GSA). There, he directed a team of HR professionals on workforce development, training and talent retention, employee and labor relations, worker’s compensation, employee safety and classification and compensation. He regularly served as chief negotiator for GSA and the City on complex labor contracts and was deployed to troubled city affiliates such as the San Francisco Housing Authority and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to restructure leadership teams to meet legal federal and local mandates.

From 2018 to 2024, he worked for a non-profit in San Francisco overseeing all business and operational activities and advising senior management team on workforce related issues, including but not limited to DEAI initiatives, complaints, grievances, unfair labor practice charges, public relations, and external political affairs.

Commissioner Leung has built his reputation on relationship and consensus building and he continues to serve as a mentor to other HR professionals in the Bay Area.