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.