Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration is also hoping to get one-year contract extensions with the city's municipal workers unions instead of bargaining a longer-term agreement.
Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration is also hoping to get one-year contract extensions with the city's municipal workers unions instead of bargaining a longer-term agreement.
Meanwhile, organizations that represent nonunionized workers are pushing for additional funds to support worker-protections investigations and enforcement. Several City Council members similarly pressed the administration on its proposed flat spending for worker protections. The plans to rein in spending would not cut staffing levels — Parker’s proposal includes money to add three labor relations positions and two more staff positions for labor policy and compliance, which includes the Office of Worker Protections.
Labor Department director Perritti DiVirgilio, who took on that role earlier this month, estimated that about three-quarters of that additional funding went to the Office of Worker Protections. The office enforces city labor laws, investigating complaints related to wage theft, violations against Philadelphia’s Fair Workweek law, and paid sick leave violations.in recovering money for workers.
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