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File #: 210443    Version: Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 5/13/2021 In control: Committee on Labor and Civil Service
On agenda: Final action: 6/24/2021
Title: Amending Chapter 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Chapter related to hiring entities providing covered individuals with a workforce and career pathways information sheet; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Gilmore Richardson, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Brooks, Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Gym, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Thomas
Code sections: Title 9 - REGULATION OF BUSINESSES, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
Attachments: 1. Bill No. 21044301, As Amended.pdf, 2. CertifiedCopy21044301
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Amending Chapter 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Chapter related to hiring entities providing covered individuals with a workforce and career pathways information sheet; all 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 amended to read as follows:

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Chapter 9-5500. Workforce and career pathways information sheet

? 9-5501. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in this Chapter:

(1) Covered individual. Covered individual includes all employees and the following individuals, without regard to whether the individual is regarded as an employee, provided such individuals perform work within the geographic boundaries of the City of Philadelphia for at least 40 hours in a year for one or more hiring entities:

(a) Any individual who works in residence for the purposes of caring for a child, serving as a companion or caretaker for a sick convalescing, elderly or a person with a disability; housekeeping or house cleaning; cooking; providing food or butler service; parking cars; cleaning laundry; gardening; personal organizing, or for any other domestic service purpose, regardless of whether such individual works for one or more hiring entities.

(b) Any individual providing services under the participant directed and agency homecare model.

(c) Any individual that works for a transportation network company, including those individuals who work as a driver. A transportation network company means an organization whether a corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, or other form, licensed or required to be licensed operating in the City of Philadelphia, that offers prearranged transportation services for compensation using an online-enabled application or platform, such as an application dispatch system, to connect passengers with ...

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