Philadelphia’s Tough New Anti-Wage Theft Law Effective July 1

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6/28/2016
by Timothy McCarthy, Stephanie Peet

Effective on July 1, 2016, the City of Philadelphia’s Wage Theft Law imposes higher penalties for violations than currently are imposed by the state’s anti-wage theft law, provides for a private right of action for alleged violations, and creates the position of Wage Theft Coordinator within the City’s Managing Director’s Office.

While wage theft (typically refers to the intentional non-payment or underpayment of earned wages) is already subject to penalty under Pennsylvania’s Wage Payment and Collection Law (43 P.S. § 260.1 et seq.), Philadelphia’s new ordinance increases employers’ compliance obligations and potential penalties for violations.

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed into law the City’s first anti-wage theft ordinance (“Wage Theft Law”) on December 1, 2015.

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The Center for Contract Compliance – 12th Annual Conference

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Jim Reed, Director of the CCC, has just announced details for the upcoming 12th Annual Underground Economy and Labor Compliance Conference.  The conference is scheduled for May 14-17, 2014, at the Riviera Palm Springs in Palm Springs, CA.  Early registration is now available, sign up prior to April 6th, 2014, and your registration fee will be waived.

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Workers’ Pay Should Not Fund ABC Sham Labor Compliance Committee’s

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Anti-union contractors deduct earnings from workers’ paychecks. They use the money to fund committees that falsely claim to be about labor compliance, but actually exist solely to further the anti-union contractors’ political interests. Then they claim that expense as a fringe benefit to the worker, which they use to reduce the amount they are legally required to pay the worker under California’s prevailing wage law.

Unfortunately, a loophole in current law allows that deceptive and unfair scenario to happen. And the Associated Builders and Contractors (“ABC”) and their friends are all too happy to exploit it.

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