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The ordinance requires contractors taking over food and beverage, hotel, health care, janitorial, building maintenance, or security service contracts in Philadelphia to retain eligible nonsupervisory workers from the previous contractor for a 90-day transition period. During that period, retained workers generally may not be fired without cause, and the ordinance requires written job offers, worker notices, complaint investigations, penalties, possible business license revocation, and legal remedies for violations.

Enacting a new Chapter 9-2300 of the Philadelphia Code entitled "Protection of Displaced Contract Workers", and amending Section 19-2602, entitled "Licenses" to require that all contractors awarded contracts for the performance of food and beverage, hotel service, health care, janitorial or building maintenance services within the City of Philadelphia retain certain non-supervisory employees of the previous contractor for a 90-day transition employment period during which period retained employees may not be terminated except for cause, and to require that said employees be provided with various other job security protections, providing penalties for non-compliance, including but not limited to revocation of the business privilege license of violators, and granting remedies to aggrieved parties; all under certain terms and conditions.