City of Milwaukee - File #: 051510

• File #: 051510
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Dead
• File created: 2/28/2006
• In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
• Final action: 3/23/2006
• Title: A substitute resolution creating a task force to study pay equity in city government and reserving the sum of up to $25,000 within the 2006 Common Council Contingent Fund for the purposes of consultant contractual services.
• Sponsors: ALD. ZIELINSKI, ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: CONSULTANTS, CONTINGENT FUND, EMPLOYMENT, WAGES AND BENEFITS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/23/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Zielinski moved that File No. 051510 be Adopted, notwithstanding the recommendation of the Finance & Personnel Committee.	Fail	1:13
3/23/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	14:0
3/20/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	4:0
3/13/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/8/2006	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
3/6/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/1/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
3/1/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
3/1/2006	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
2/28/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051510
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. ZIELINSKI AND BAUMAN
Title
A substitute resolution creating a task force to study pay equity in city government and reserving the sum of up to $25,000 within the 2006 Common Council Contingent Fund for the purposes of consultant contractual services.
Analysis
This resolution creates a task force to examine gender pay equity in City of Milwaukee government. The task force shall determine if there is pay inequity in city employment, and present its findings and recommendations to the Common Council within 18 months of adoption of this resolution. Upon submission of the report, the task force shall automatically be dissolved.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee is dedicated to fostering pay equity; and

Whereas, Pay equity, also called comparable worth, means eliminating discrimination in pay for female dominated jobs; and

Whereas, Despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which make discrimination in wages illegal, full-time female workers are still earning less than that of full-time male workers; and

Whereas, A comparable worth study evaluates salaries based on the skill, effort and responsibility each job requires relative to other jobs in an organization, and a city-wide study could result in more uniform pay equity in city government; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that a pay equity task force is created composed of 15 members:

1. One member of the Common Council, to be appointed by the Common Council President.
2. Two citizen members to be appointed by the Common Council President.
3. Three citizen members to be appointed by the Mayor.
4. ...