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CITY COUNCIL approves Goode New Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard
Submitted by Councilman Goode on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 12:23pm.
CITY COUNCIL approves New Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard
(Philadelphia, April 17, 2008) – Philadelphia City Council has unanimously approved the New Minimum Wage and Benefits Bill introduced by Councilman W. Wilson Goode, Jr. on January 24, 2008.
The New Minimum Wage and Benefits Bill will require City-supported employers to pay at least 150% of the federal minimum wage to its employees as of July 2009, and to the extent that the Employer provides health benefits to any of its employees, the Employer shall provide each full-time Employee health benefits at least as valuable as the basic health benefits that are provided to the Employer’s other full-time employees.
Under Goode’s 2005 landmark living wage legislation, City-supported employers must now pay at least 150% of the state minimum wage (which currently amounts to at least $10.72 per hour for City-covered workers) but there is no current standard set for minimum benefits.
In July of 2009, the federal minimum wage is set to exceed the state minimum wage - and Goode’s new legislation would require covered employees in Philadelphia to be paid at least $10.88 per hour, with comparable basic health benefits for full-time employees.
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Thank you!
This is exactly the way the federal government works: if you want their money, you play by their rules. If you don't want to follow the City's pay + benefits guidelines, don't take the City's money. Seems simple enough.
-Z
Conrgrats to Council and Congrats to Philadelphia
Once again the City acts in the absence of appropriate action at other levels of Government.