ADOPTED

The adopted resolution proposes amending Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter to create a Department of Labor and a seven-member Board of Labor Standards, subject to approval by city voters. The proposed department would handle the City’s labor relations and collective bargaining, investigate and help enforce worker-protection rules, oversee labor standards in certain City contracts, and provide worker-rights education; the board would review department decisions or adjudicate matters as provided by future rules.

Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor and a Board of Labor Standards, to provide for the powers and duties of such Department and such Board, and to otherwise provide for incorporation of the Department and Board into the City government; and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.