Official:Amending Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Contractors: Labor Management Relationships” to create a new classification of covered airport service employees to receive prevailing wages; to extend prevailing wage requirements to third-party contracts with City-related agencies, lessees and sublessees of the City, recipients of City financial assistance, and purchasers of City property; to further provide for administration and enforcement, including reporting on contractor compliance with prevailing wage requirements; and to provide for a civil action to remedy violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Johnson
Introduced: May 6, 2021
Signed: June 24, 2021
: Committee on Labor and Civil Service
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill requires contractors working with the City to pay prevailing wages to their employees on certain projects, including those at Philadelphia International Airport and city-related agencies.
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