Expanding the living wage law to cover additional human services workers and providing the department of consumer affairs additional enforcement authority over the living wage laws.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the living wage law to cover additional human services workers and providing the department of consumer affairs additional enforcement authority over the living wage laws

The 2002 living wage law requires City service contractors and subcontractors that provide homecare services, day care services, Head Start services or services to persons with cerebral palsy to pay employees a living wage. Thousands of other City-contracted human services workers are not covered by the law. The proposed bill would expand the living wage law to cover all human services employees working under a City contract. The bill would also cover building service workers engaged by a City service contractor that provides contracted human services on its premises to assist in performing the City contract. Additionally, the bill would provide the Department of Consumer Affairs (“DCA”), rather than the contracting agencies, enforcement authority over the 2002 living wage law. The bill would also grant DCA authority to conduct an inquiry into the results of the Comptroller’s investigations, if necessary, in assessing the appropriate remedy for violations of the living wage laws.