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This enacted ordinance expands Philadelphia’s prevailing-wage requirements to cover certain airport service employees, including workers in airport ground handling, concessions, food preparation and delivery, and parking services. It also applies these requirements to certain contracts, leases, subleases, financial assistance recipients, and purchasers of City property, and strengthens enforcement through reporting, required repayment of unpaid wages, and civil lawsuits for violations.

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.