NUMB:
990130
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:
XXBY:
THE CHAIR
TITL:
A substitute ordinance relating to waiver of service contract living wage requirements by the central board of purchases.
SECS:
310-13-3 am
310-13-4 am
310-13-6 am
310-13-8 am
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This ordinance authorizes the central board of purchases to waive insertion of living wage requirements into specifications or proposals for service contracts, upon recommendation of the purchasing director, if it is likely that no bids or proposals will be received without a waiver. This ordinance also changes the word "minimum" in section 310-13 to "living" to provide consistency throughout the section.
BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 310-13-3 and 4 of the code is amended to read:
310-13. Service Contract Wage Requirements.
3. [[MINIMUM]] >>LIVING<< WAGE REQUIREMENT. All workers, whether permanent or temporary, employed in any work performed as part of a service contract, as defined in sub. 2, awarded after December 31, 1995, shall receive and be paid a sum of not less than $6.05 per hour. On March 1, 1996, and each March 1 thereafter, the [[minimum]] >>living<< hourly wage shall be adjusted to the amount required to produce, for 2,080 hours worked, an annual income equal to the U.S. department of health and human services' most recent poverty guideline for a family of 3. No contractor may use the [[minimum]] >>living<< wage requirement of this subsection to reduce the wage paid to any person employed by the contractor as of December 31, 1995.
4. PART-TIME WORKERS COVERED. The [[minimum]] >>living<< wage requirement of sub. 3 shall apply to part-time employes performing work as part of a service contract, as defined in sub. 2.
Part 2. Section 310-13-6 of the code is amended to read:
6. SERVICE CONTRACT BID AND REQUEST-FOR-PROPOSAL SPECIFICATIONS. The proper city officials shall add a digest of t...
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