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Description
Philadelphia City Council votes on Bill 150741, which creates a wage theft coordinator for the City and adding definitions, duties, penalties, fees, procedural requirements, a private right of action and other related items regarding wage theft.
The bill's sponsor Councilman Bill Greenlee (At Large), speaks to council before the vote.
B
Thank
You,
mr.
president,
just
quickly,
and
this
bill
is
about
a
very
basic
premise:
people
should
get
paid
what
they're
supposed
to
get
paid
I,
don't
think
that's
controversial,
yet
20
a
study
by
Temple
University
estimated
that
20,000
30,000
workers
eight
week,
mostly
Philadelphians,
get
short
changed
somehow
on
their
pay.
When
that
many
citizens
of
our
city
are
aggrieved,
the
city
of
Philadelphia
should
be.
It
should
try
to
do
something.
This
wait.
Staff
coordinator,
that
this
bill
proposes,
I
think,
is
a
very
fair
way
and
hopefully
expeditious
way
to
deal
with.
B
Most
of
these
problems
with
record
has
the
we
have
been
working
with
mayor
mayor,
elect
Kenny's
people
who
support
it.
They
will
be
actually
the
ones
that
would
be
appointing
this
coordinator
and
again,
I
think
it's
a
fair
way
to
deal
with
what
is
surprising,
a
bigger
problem
and
then
and
I
think
a
lot
of
it's
gone
so
I
would
respectfully
request
all
members
of
council
to
support
this
bill.
Thank
You,
mr.
chairman,
mr.
president,
Thank.