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Amending Chapter 9-2300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Protection of Displaced Contract Workers," by clarifying definitions and scope of applicability, all under certain terms and conditions.

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This enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s rules protecting displaced contract workers by clarifying which employees and service contracts are covered. It includes registered nurses and certain seasonal workers, defines covered services and successor contracts more broadly, and specifies when the City itself may be treated as a departing contractor; managers, supervisors, confidential employees, and people working fewer than 15 hours per week generally remain excluded.

File details

Status
ENACTED
Introduced
October 15, 2020
Sponsors
Kenyatta JohnsonHelen GymIsaiah ThomasBobby HenonMark SquillaCurtis Jones, Jr.Maria D. Quiñones-SánchezKendra BrooksJamie GauthierKatherine Gilmore RichardsonDarrell L. ClarkeCherelle Parker
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 9-2300 of The Philadelphia Code

is hereby amended to read as follows

:

CHAPTER 9-2300 PROTECTION OF DISPLACED CONTRACT WORKERS

§ 9-2301. Definitions.

The following definitions shall apply throughout this Chapter:

(3)

Customary seasonal work means work performed by an employee during only the same approximate part of each calendar year, such as summer or winter.

(4)

Employee means any person employed to provide services pursuant to a service contract and includes registered nurses. "Employee" does not include a person who is (a) a managerial, supervisory, or confidential employee, including those employees who would so be defined under the Fair Labor Standards Act; or (b) is employed less than 15 hours a week.

However, "Employee" does include persons who work 15 hours or more per week during customary seasonal work but do not work an annualized average of 15 hours or more per week.

[(4)]

(5)

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[(5)]

(6)

Service contract means a contract

, lease, or concession agreement

let to a contractor by the awarding authority for the furnishing of security, janitorial, building maintenance, food and beverage, hotel service, or non-professional health care services, including any services to be performed by registered nurses.

[(6)]

(7)

Successorship service contract means a service contract with the awarding authority where substantially the same services to be performed have previously been rendered to the awarding authority as part of the same program or at the same facility under another service contract that recently has been terminated or has ended within the previous 90 days

, or have previously been rendered by the awarding authority’s own employees.

(8) Terminated or ending contractor means a contractor whose service contract expires without renewal or whose contract is terminated and includes the awarding authority itself where work previously rendered by the awarding authority’s own employees is the subject of a successorship service contract.

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Explanation:

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted.

Italics

indicate new matter added.

End

File history

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  1. Council actionMAYOR

    Signed

  2. CITY COUNCIL

    Details not published

    No details have been published for this item. Legistar notes that this meeting's minutes have not been finalized.
  3. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Read and ordered placed on next week's second reading calendar

    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Ordered placed on this day`s first reading calendar

    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Suspend the rules of the council

  4. Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Reported favorably, rule suspension requested

    Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Hearing held

    Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Hearing notices sent

  5. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Introduced and Referred