Baltimore City Council
File #: 10-0505    Version: 0 Name: Minimum Wage - Living Wage for Major Retailer Employees
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 5/3/2010 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: Minimum Wage - Living Wage for Major Retailer Employees FOR the purpose of requiring major retail stores to pay employees a living wage determined by the Board of Estimates; requiring that affected employees be informed of the required living wage rate; allowing for certain benefits to be included when determining if a wage rate complies with the requirements of this ordinance; defining certain terms; conforming, clarifying, and correcting related provisions; and generally relating to the City’s required minimum wage rate.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Belinda Conaway, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Warren Branch, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Carl Stokes, Robert Curran, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger
Indexes: Living Wage, Minimum Wage
Attachments: 1. Labor - 10-0505.pdf, 2. Human Resources - 10-0505.pdf, 3. BDC - 0505.pdf, 4. 10-0505 - 1st Reader.pdf, 5. Employment Development - 10-0505.pdf, 6. Law - 10-0505.pdf, 7. Finance - 10-0505.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmembers Clarke and Conaway


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Minimum Wage - Living Wage for Major Retailer Employees

FOR the purpose of requiring major retail stores to pay employees a living wage determined by the Board of Estimates; requiring that affected employees be informed of the required living wage rate; allowing for certain benefits to be included when determining if a wage rate complies with the requirements of this ordinance; defining certain terms; conforming, clarifying, and correcting related provisions; and generally relating to the City’s required minimum wage rate.
body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 11 - Labor and Employment
Section(s) 1-1, 1-3, and 3-1
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article 11 - Labor and Employment
Section(s) 8-1 to 8-9 to be under the new subtitle,
“Subtitle 8. Major Retailer Minimum Wage.”
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)


Recitals

It is the policy of the City of Baltimore, as expressed in §1-2 of the City’s Labor and Employment Article, to promote living wage jobs to help working families make ends meet, and to protect the health and welfare of our community.


The Council has determined that the retail industry is an incr...

Click here for full text