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The ordinance requires contractors and subcontractors working on certain City contracts to follow Workforce Diversity requirements, including submitting workforce plans and demographic payroll information, keeping employment records, and allowing City inspections. It gives the Labor Standards Unit responsibility for monitoring and investigating compliance and allows penalties such as fines, withholding of payments, and temporary ineligibility for City contracts when requirements are violated.

Amending Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contractors: Labor-Management Relationships," by requiring the City's Labor Standards Unit to enforce the City's contract requirements for Workforce Diversity and by providing penalties for contractor failure to make good faith efforts to meet Workforce Diversity goals, all under certain terms and conditions.