ProGov21 Policy Library

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...

Using State and Local Government Purchasing Power to Combat Wage Theft

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...

2017 San Diego Ordinance 10-2017 Mandating Equal Pay

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....

2015 El Paso Ordinance 018370 Responding to Wage Theft Complaints

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...

St. Petersburg Ordinance 161-H Responding to Wage Theft Complaints

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...

2015 Los Angeles Ordinance 183613 Creating a Wage Enforcement Division

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...

2011 San Francisco Ordinance 175-11 Regarding Wage Theft

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,...

2022 Austin Ordinance 31 Establishing Wage Theft Prevention Standards

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...

A Shrinking Toolbox: The Corporate Efforts to Eliminate PAGA and Limit California Worker’s Rights

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2024

Level State

State(s) California

Source UCLA Labor Center

Policy Areas Economic Justice

High rates of labor violations in California disproportionately harm workers of color and workers in low-wage industries. The 2003 Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) expanded the state's labor enforcement capacity by allowing workers to sue on behalf of the Labor & Workforce Development...

2012 Broward County Ordinance 32 Protecting Workers from Wage Theft

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2012

Level County

State(s) Florida

Source Broward County Commission

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance provides a variety of worker protections against wage theft. A complaint for non-payment of earned wages, if not resolved through conciliation, is heard by the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Professional Standards. If a violation is established, the hearing...

2020 Los Angeles Ordinance 150742 Prohibiting Retaliation by Employers

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City of Los Angeles

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health

This ordinance prohibits retaliation by employers towards employees who report public health violations. It further states that employers in violation of this ordinance are subject to $10,000 in fines per day....

California’s Hero Labor Law: The Private Attorneys General Act Fights Wage Theft and Recovers Millions from Lawbreaking Corporations

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) California

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Though California has enacted numerous laws that help workers recover stolen wages, access paid leave from work, and enforce safe and humane working conditions, such legislation fails to deliver economic security to working Californians unless accompanied by strong enforcement mechanisms....

Wage Theft

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source State Innovation Exchange

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families

Wage theft is a catchall term for a range of situations in which an employer fails to pay an employee, and it can take many forms - from employers paying employees less than the minimum wage or failing to pay overtime to withholding tips, not providing employees with their final paycheck,...

Build a Better South: Construction Working Conditions in the Southern U.S.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Public Safety, Health

As construction activity in the southern United States continues to flourish, concern over workers’ health and safety grows. Economic hardships, few or no opportunities for career advancement, unstable work, injuries, and even death on the job are commonplace for construction workers...

2012 Albuquerque Ordinance 12-2006 Establishing a Minimum Wage

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) New Mexico

Source City of Albuquerque

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance establishes a minimum wage in the City of Albuquerque....

Los Angeles Ordinance No. 178084

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City of Los Angeles

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Hotels in the LAX area have instituted the practice of adding a "service charge" of 15% to 20% of the bill for banquets and other large group events. Some hotels pass a portion of the service charge to the workers who actually performed the services, while other hotels retain the...

Testimony_ City should take a stand against wage theft

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

The federal enforcement of wage theft is weak, causing harm to workers. The Cincinnati City Council can start to stand against wage theft by adopting Just Pay ordinance, which allows local enforcement of wage and hour laws and protects employers from unfair comprtition....

Job Quality Roadmap

Type Roadmap

Year 2022

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ProGov21

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health, Public Safety

ProGov21's updated Job Quality Roadmap provides information and resources that enable the creation of safe and equitable working conditions for all workers. Presently, American jobs offer low pay, unpredictable hours, and little stability, while workers in these jobs suffer from dangerous...

Cities and Jobs: Local Strategies for Improving Job Quality and Access

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source COWS

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This report examines methods for cities to improve job quality in their communities by using city regulatory power to establish wage floors and other employment standards, regulating domestic-employee placing agencies, using city resources to enforce existing government employment...

2015 Philadelphia Ordinance 150741 Creating a Wage Theft Coordinator

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source City of Philadelphia

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance creates a wage theft coordinator for the City and provides definitions, duties, penalties, feed, procedural requirements, a private right of action and other related items regarding wage theft....

Wage Theft: A quiet crisis in Ohio: in absence of state investment, cities can take the lead

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....

2022 Austin Ordinance 31 Establishing Wage Theft Prevention Standards

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...

2022 Cleveland Ordinance 892-2022 Preventing Wage Theft and Payroll Fraud

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...

Public Task Forces Take on Employee Misclassification: Best Practices

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....

10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class for Hard Working Americans

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...

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