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Anti-Discrimination in Employment Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source State College Borough Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance ensures that each resident receives full benefits of citizenship and equal employment opportunities regardless of a person's perceived or actual race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status,...

2001 East Palo Alto California First Source Hiring and Local Business Enterprise Policy

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2001

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Wales Town Board

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

An act requiring that for city-assisted development projects, developers and employers of the built business are required to hire 30% local residents, or make efforts to do so....

2014 Chicago Ordinance 02014-1511

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Chicago City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

This ordinance requires all employers in the City of Chicago to offer employees the opportunity to earn and accumulate sick time. The ordinance requires employers to provide one hour of sick time for each 30 hours worked, with a cap of 40 accumulated hours for small employers and...

It is Time for Earned Sick Leave in Michigan

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level State

State(s) Michigan

Source Michigan League for Public Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families

Michigan should enact an earned sick leave law. An earned sick leave law in Michigan would require most employers to bank sick time for their workers based on the number of hours they have worked. This would help low-paid workers keep their jobs, increase productivity and reduce employee...

2005 Hudson County Ordinance 360-9

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2005

Level County

State(s) New Jersey

Source Hudson County Board Of Chosen Freeholders

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance specifies minimum wage and benefit requirements for service workers of vendors, contractors, and subcontractors who contract with the County of Hudson. The ordinance grants the following for workers who work 20 hours or more per week: an hourly pay rate 150 percent...

2010 Hartford City Ordinance Number 06-10, 3-22-10

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) Connecticut

Source Hartford Court Of Common Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This city ordinance requires a living wage for all workers employed to perform work associated with city contracts....

Warning: Bossware May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Center for Democracy & Technology

Policy Areas Health, Data & Technology

Bossware refers to systems that closely monitor and actively manage workers’ activities and performance. In particular, modern worker monitoring technologies (i.e. sensors and cameras that track workers’ physical movements, handheld scanners scanners that track each item a warehouse...

The Corporate Culprits Receiving COVID Bailouts

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Economic Justice

More than one million businesses and non-profit organizations have been identified as recipients of grants and loans awarded through the Paycheck Protection Program and other provisions of the CARES Act. Good Jobs First has determined that more than 43,000 of those recipients have...

Jersey City Prevailing Wage Ordinance 12-090

Type Ordinance

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Jersey City City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance amends the Jersey City Municipal Code by requiring City contractors to provide their employees, whether full- or part-time, with a standard hourly rate of pay, benefits, and paid leave during the time of their contract. Additionally, when a contractor’s service is terminated,...

1998 Oakland Ordinance 12050

Type Ordinance

Year 1998

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Oakland City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

The ordinance requires companies or non-profits with service contracts with the city worth at least $25,000 or benefiting from at least $100,000 in city subsidies to pay workers a minimum of $9.25 an hour; entitles workers to 12 paid days off per year; and allows collective bargaining...

2000 Santa Cruz Living Wage Ordinance 25

Type Ordinance

Year 2000

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Santa Cruz City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance requires city service contractors to pay workers a living wage. Each year the city council will review and extend the living wage by at least an amount which corresponds to the cost of living increase as measured by the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area Consumer...

Algorithm-Driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Center for Democracy & Technology

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Data & Technology

Employers use algorithm-driven hiring tools as a fast and efficient way to process job applications in large numbers. Job-seekers are increasingly asked to record videos (that employers mine for facial and vocal cues), complete online tests (that are used to evaluate their optimism...

2013 Vicco Fair Employment Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Kentucky

Source Vicco City Council

Policy Areas Civil Rights

This ordinance prohibits employers from refusing to hire, or terminating and discriminating against an individual due to their race, color, or national origin; sex and/or gender; religion; age; or sexual orientation. The ordinance requires the City Council to appoint a member of the...

2014 Milwaukee County Ordinance 14-7

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement

The ordinance requires Miwaukee County and employers that are contractors, subcontractors, or lessees of, or recipients of economic development financial assistance from, the county to pay all covered full and part-time employees a living wage equal to 100% of the poverty income level...

Connecticut’s Excluded Communities: Key Findings from a COVID-19 Community Impact Survey

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) Connecticut

Source The Center for Popular Democracy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Housing, Health

Connecticut’s Latinx and immigrant communities are being disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Make the Road Connecticut (MRCT) launched an impact survey to more fully understand key issues facing people of color and immigrants related to employment, housing, health,...

Ending Job Discrimination Based on Credit

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source Office Of Council Member Brad Lander

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

The fact sheet supports the 2012 New York City initiative, 'Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act.' The fact sheet contains statistics and background on the practice and effects of using credit checks in hiring decisions....

2012 New York City Ordinance 857: Consumer Credit History Discrimination

Type Ordinance

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source The New York City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance deems it unlawful for an employer, labor organization, employment agency, or licensing agency to discriminate against an applicant or an employee with regard to hiring, termination, promotion, and compensation based on their consumer credit history. “Consumer credit...

2011 Seattle Ordinance 123698

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source City of Seattle

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families

This ordinance requires employers to provide a certain number of hours annually, depending on business size, to employees for sick leave to care for themselves or others, or for safe leave to address the after-effects of sexual assault....

Century Boulevard Living Wage Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance adds Article 4 to Chapter X of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to create an Airport Hospitality Enhancement Zone. By designating the Century Boulevard Corridor as an Airport Hospitality enhancement zone, the City will improve and encourage the continuing growth and development...

1998 Detroit Ordinance 45-98: Living Wage Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Michigan

Source Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance mandates city service contractors or recipients of city financial assistance of $50,000 or more pay employees a living wage equivalent to the federal poverty line for a family of four. It also requires companies to have local-hiring policies for new jobs created through...

“The Forgotten Ones”—The Economic Well-Being of Early Educators During COVID-19

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) California

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

This report provides a closer look at the well-being of California's early educators during the COVID-19 public health crisis, using data collected from the 2020 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. Key findings show that educators' low wages leave them vulnerable...

2013 San Francisco Ordinance 130785

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Board Of Supervisors

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families

This ordinance allows San Francisco-based employees to request flexible or predictable working arrangements to assist with care giving responsibilities, subject to the employer's right to deny a request based on business reasons; prohibits adverse employment actions based on caregiver...

2008 Milwaukee Ordinances Chapter 355

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Milwaukee City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces

This ordinance makes several changes related to the requirements of the participation of city residents in public works contracts, requirements for developers receiving direct financial assistance from the city, local business enterprise contracting standards, and sanction and penalty...

2017 Cook County Ordinance 16-4229 Earned Sick Leave

Type Ordinance

Year 2017

Level County

State(s) Illinois

Source Cook County Board

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health

Under this ordinance, any covered employee who works at least 80 hours for an employer within any 120-day period shall be eligible for earned sick leave. For every 40 hours worked after a covered employee's earned sick leave begins to accrue, they shall accrue one hour of earned sick...

2013 New York City Local Law 78

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source New York City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families

This local law prohibits discrimination in employment based on pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. This local law makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to refuse to provide a reasonable accommodation to the needs of an employee for her pregnancy,...

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