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Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Chapter 9-4700, to provide protections for parking employees against wrongful discharge, under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
TITLE 9. REGULATION OF BUSINESSES, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
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CHAPTER 9-4700. WRONGFUL DISCHARGE FROM PARKING EMPLOYMENT
? 9-4701. Definitions. As used in this Chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) Agency. The term "Agency" shall mean such office as the Mayor shall designate to administer and enforce this Chapter.
(2) Bona fide economic reason. The term "bona fide economic reason" in connection with the discharge of parking employees means the full or partial closing of operations or technological or organizational changes to the business, resulting in a reduction in revenue or profit.
(3) Discharge. The term "discharge" means any cessation of employment, including termination, constructive discharge, layoff, reduction in hours and indefinite suspension.
(4) Parking employer. The term "parking employer" shall mean any individual, partnership, association, corporation or business trust or any person or group of persons, or a successor thereof, that employs one or more parking employees, including any such entity or person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of the employer in relation to the parking employee. More than one entity may be the parking employer if employment by one parking employer is not completely disassociated from employment by the other parking employer.
(5) Just cause discharge. The term "just cause discharge" means a discharge for a parking employee's failure to satisfactorily perform job duties or misconduct that is demonstrably and materially harmful to the parking employer'...
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