Philadelphia legislators will consider implementing up-to-date provisions aimed at protecting employees against retaliation and strengthening the city’s ability to enforce existing work regulations.
Legislation, introduced on Thursday in the Council and is authored by a member of the Kendra Brooks Council on the progress of the progress of working families, appears among the long fears of activists and organized work leaders who claim that the City Work Department does not have a resource of sturdy provisions regarding the protection of employees.
The Brooks Act would add and adjust a number of provisions, including granting the city the ability to cancel the employers’ license, which violated the provisions regarding the protection of employees and publish the database of “bad actors” online.
Also on Thursday, the council took a moment of silence for the victims of the fatal plane of the air disaster last Friday in the north -eastern Philadelphia and ran Eagles Pep before the Sunday match.
What was the most vital event this week?
Giving the Labor Department some teeth: Over the past decade, Philadelphia has strengthened its provisions aimed at protecting employees, including by implementing a ban on wages and requirements for employers to provide paid unwell time.
But supporters say that the city does not have adequate authorization to enforce these provisions or support employees who are in the face of retaliation for reporting violations. Brooks’s legislation aims to solve both points. Bills make dozens of changes to the City Code, including:
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By making employers illegal to take revenge on employees in order to exercise rights protected by existing city regulations.
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The requirement of employers maintains registers on paid unwell leave for at least three years and enabling the Municipal Office of Employee Protection to watch these provisions.
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Granting cities authorized to cancel the license and municipal contracts from employers, which were found that it violated the provisions regarding the protection of employees.
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Granting employees the ability to apply for damage to these employers. Legislation says that employees who claim wages are entitled to receive compensation equal to unpaid wages or USD 500, depending on which value is greater.
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Establishment of the “Workers’ Justice Fund” operated by a city financed from influence from fines that would support employees who are victims of the employer’s retaliation.
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Giving the city council rights to publish “bad databases of actors” employers who repeatedly violate the provisions regarding the protection of the city.
The Brooks office said that legislation has 12 Konwonsors, which is the majority of the council. It will be directed to the Committee and the trial will take place before he can be subjected to the voice. The trial has not yet been planned.
On Thursday, on Thursday, supporters of supporters gathered around Brooks in the council, including dozens of members of the Philly Black Worker Project and National Dometic Workers Alliance project, which represents nans, carers and housewives.
Brooks said that the legislation is particularly timely granted to the administration of President Donald Trump may look at the reduction of the initiative in the Federal Department of Labor.
“According to the anti-immigrant anti-employee, these country employees encounter even greater risk of retaliation and abuse by employers,” said Brooks. “Our city will not sit down and do nothing.”
What else happened this week?
Remembering about accidents in northern filadelphia: The members of the Council carried out a moment of silence at the memory of seven people who died in the north -eastern Philadelphia on Friday, when the medical transport aircraft hit Cottman Avenue. Two dozen others were injured.
A member of the city council Mike Driscoll, who represents the area in which the plane collapsed and was on the catastrophic scene at the night of the disaster, gave an emotional speech on Thursday of the Council, thanking the first respondents whom he said that “he immediately threw himself at chaos.” He said that the scope of devastation was “unimaginable”.
“I really believe that he was a witness that the number of injuries and fatalities was stopped,” said Driscoll. “It could have been much worse.”
Eagles Pep Rally: The decorative chambers of the council were decorated with green and white balloons and signs, and almost every member was dressed in bird equipment – including the chairman of the Kenyatta Council Johnson, who presided over the meeting in the Jalen Hurts shirt.
The informal survey of the members suggests that one selected official stands out as the largest fan of the birds of the Council: the leader of the democratic majority of Katherine Gilmore Richardson, who wore the Eagle Flag as Cape on Thursday and which the bag was filled with rally towels.
“You talk about Eagles’ Fans for life,” she said, adding the band: “We will close haters and naysayers.”
It was more controversial that one member is a fan of bosses: a member of the Jim Harrity Council, who represents the city largely and said that the roots for Kansas City because of the long -term relationship with the owner of Big Charlie’s Saloon, fans of Chiefs Fan Bar. at South Philly. (The bar will be closed to a great game on Sunday.)
Several members called Harrites for double loyalty during the council session. Member of the Curtis Jones Jones Council. He went so far that he called it an unauthorized behavior. But Harrita said that his fandom is not so deep and that he simply “supports a good game.”
Then he added: “So I don’t have to hear how you cry on Monday.”
Quote of the week
If you feel uncomfortable when someone speaks in a language you don’t understand, suck him.
He was a member of the Council of Quetcy Lozad, the only member of the Latin chamber who responded to a public commentator who negatively spoke about immigrants during the Thursday meeting. The man complained that Spanish -speaking residents had more time to register their comments because the translators translated their statements after delivering them.
“Hate has no place in the city,” Lozada said, “and hatred certainly has no place here.”
