City of Philadelphia - File #: 051103

• File #: 051103
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 11/17/2005
• In control: Committee on Labor and Civil Service
• Title: Amending Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contractors: Labor-Management Relationships," by requiring a certain number of apprentices and journeymen on every City public works contract and further requiring that such apprentices be selected from a City apprenticeship identification program; all under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Kenney
• Indexes: CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT
• Code sections: 17-107 - Contractors: Labor Management Relationships

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
11/17/2005	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
11/17/2005	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred

Title
Amending Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contractors: Labor-Management Relationships," by requiring a certain number of apprentices and journeymen on every City public works contract and further requiring that such apprentices be selected from a City apprenticeship identification program; all under certain terms and conditions.
Body
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended as follows:

§17-107. Contractors: Labor-Management Relationships.


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(2) Contracts.

(a) The specifications for all city-work contracts shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid for each occupational classification of employees. Such minimum wages shall be the prevailing wages as defined herein for the corresponding classification of employees.

(b) Every city-work public works contract shall contain a provision requiring every contractor and/or subcontractor to employ one apprentice for every three journeymen employed at the job site.

(c) All apprentices hired to work on city-work public works contracts pursuant to the requirement of subparagraph (b) shall be selected pursuant to a City program established to identify available and qualified apprentices.

[(b)] (d) Every City-work contract shall contain a provision that all employees performing city-work other than apprentices and job trainees as provided below shall be paid at least the applicable prevailing wages for journeymen and given at least the applicable working conditions; and that, upon any violation of this Section or any regulations promulgated hereunder, the City may withhold any sums remaining due on the contract until such time as the violation is remedied or, if the violation is not remedied promptly, the City may take such payments directly to affected employees, out of withheld sums, as may be necessary to remedy the violation.

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