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Type Article
Year 2024
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Courtlyn G. Roser-Jones
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
Because the likelihood of being penalized is low, some employers commit wage-theft on a large scale. This report explores government contracting approaches for mitigating wage theft, including disclosure obligations, ineligibility sanctions for wage-theft offenders, and government...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Local Progress
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This policy brief outlines policy levers local jurisdictions can use to address wage theft and support local workers. Some of the policies detailed include quality administrative systems, reliable data for tracking wages, and stronger sanctions for violating wage theft provisions....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2004
Level City or Town
State(s) Missouri
Source Council of Kansas City
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance redefines "stealing" to include wage theft. A person may be criminally prosecuted if they refuse or fail to pay for the labor or services provided by an individual pursuant to an agreement....

Type Roadmap
Year 2021
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source ProGov21
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Presently, the average American worker is unfairly compensated for their labor. In response to this challenge, ProGov21's updated Job Quality Roadmap provides information and resources that enable the creation of a healthy and productive workforce. It calls on local governments to...

Type Article
Year 2024
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Washington and Lee Law Review
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
Because the likelihood of being penalized is low, some employers commit wage-theft on a large scale. This report explores government contracting approaches for mitigating wage theft, including disclosure obligations, ineligibility sanctions for wage-theft offenders, and government...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source City of San Diego
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This ordinance ensures compliance with non-discrimination laws and the California Equal Pay Act. It further requires businesses to equalize wages between employees who perform equal or substantially similar work, regardless of gender, race, or ethnicity....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source City of El Paso
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance outlines the procedure for wage theft complaints in El Paso, TX. In particular, this ordinance creates a wage theft database, maintained by a Wage Theft Coordinator designated by the City Manager, to identify employers with a wage theft adjudication record, establish...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) Florida
Source City of St. Petersburg
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance details the procedure for wage theft complaints in St. Petersburg, FL, including the process of filing wage theft complaints, employer responses, conciliation, and hearings before a hearing officer. Moreover, this ordinance also outlines enforcement practices and retaliation...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) Florida
Source Pinellas County, FL Office of Human Rights
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Wage theft is the non-payment or underpayment of earned wages to employees by employers. This can include an employee's earned paid time off, leave, vacation or sick pay. For example, wage theft includes paying less than minimum wage, not paying workers overtime, not allowing workers...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source City of Los Angeles
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This ordinance establishes a new Wage Enforcement Division to enforce violations of wage theft in Los Angeles, establish penalties, and grant authority to the City of Los Angeles Police Commission to deny, revoke or suspend a police permit issued or requested by an employer found...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2024
Level City or Town
State(s) Washington
Source City of Everett
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Everett ordinance protects city workers from wage theft to protect their rights and benefits. It ensures that workers receive their full wage, are compensated for overtime work hours, and implements public works contracts. ...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source Economic Policy Institute
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
Worker misclassification results in the wrongful categorization of employees as independent contractors, depriving workers of benefits, equal protections, and fair compensation. Local governments can use the ABC test to determine if a worker is an employee or independent contractor...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2011
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source City and County of San Francisco
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This ordinance enhances the ability of the City and County of San Francisco to enforce its minimum wage by requiring employers to create dispute resolution policies, increasing the penalty for employer retaliation, and establishing penalties for employers that fail to provide personal,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Ohio
Source Policy Matters Ohio
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement
Wage Theft causes large amount of national loss each year. Ohio spends few resources on wage investigation, and hence cities can take steps to prevent wage theft within their jurisdictions. Cities can use procurement, licensing, tax enforcement, and tax incentives....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) Texas
Source City of Austin
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
This ordinance combats wage theft by requiring the city to designate a wage theft coordinator, establishing a database of employers with a record of wage theft adjudication, and preventing offending employers from contracting with the city. It also outlines the wage theft coordinator's...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) Ohio
Source City of Cleveland
Policy Areas Civil Rights
This ordinance prevents persons or entities that have engaged in wage theft or payroll fraud from bidding on city services or construction contracts or receiving financial assistance from the city. It also requires the city to create a database of entities that have committed such...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies, State
State(s) All States
Source National Employment Law Project
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
Cities, states, and workers' organizations have established interagency task forces to take on companies that illegally misclassify workers. This report provides an overview of best practices for creating worker misclassification task forces and highlights successful case studies....

Type Article
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
Living wage laws establish wage and benefit standards for companies that do business with the government to improve job quality and increase living standards for low-income workers. The Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance greatly improved pay for low-income workers, with an average...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level City or Town, State
State(s) All States
Source Partnership for Working Families
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Public Safety, Health
The U.S. economy is headed towards greater inequality as middle-class jobs are becoming increasingly scarce, while low wage jobs are growing. This report details ten proposals to strengthen the economy for the long term by creating “good” jobs and addressing the economic insecurity...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2011
Level City or Town
State(s) Pennsylvania
Source City of Philadelphia
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This ordinance creates fair practices for employers within the City of Philadelphia. Some notable clauses include prohibiting employers from inquiring about prior wage history, prohibiting businesses from denying cash retail, and establishing protected classes....

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2024
Level City or Town
State(s) Minnesota
Source City of Saint Paul
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This Saint Paul ordinance prevents the theft of wages earned by city workers. It mandates that employers pay all wages earned by their workers, ensures that employers provide their workers with a written notice that states their rate of pay, and requires employers to provide earnings...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Center for an Urban Future
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Transportation & Mobility
In recent years, cities have become the drivers of government innovation. As urban growth has exploded over the past half century - increasing from a third to nearly 60 percent of world population today - local officials have been forced to solve problems and generate new ideas, policies,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source National Employment Law Project
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
This guide outlines effective state and city-level policies for strengthening the enforcement of minimum wage and overtime laws. This guide advocates for policies that raise employers' costs for violating wage laws, strengthen local government's capacity to enforce labor regulations,...

Type Act or Session Law
Year 2021
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source National Employment Law Project
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Despite existing income protections, wage theft remains rampant, particularly among immigrant workers who fear retaliation for reporting violations. This report's findings underscore that current retaliation protections are insufficient, leaving workers vulnerable to financial instability...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) New Mexico
Source City of Albuquerque
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This ordinance requires all requests for proposals to submit pay equity metrics for employees and gender pay data to review the deviation between salaries for men and women....

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