City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2010-0005

• File #: 2010-0005
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 1/12/2010
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• Final action: 2/2/2010
• Enactment date: 2/2/2010
• Enactment #: 1
• Effective date: 2/3/2010
• Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title I-Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, Chapter 161-Contracts, to require contractors who provide building service and food services to the City of Pittsburgh to pay prevailing wages to employees employed pursuant to such contracts, and to require that building service, food service, grocery, and hotel employees employed on projects receiving City subsidies be paid prevailing wages.
• Sponsors: Douglas Shields, William Peduto, Reverend Ricky V. Burgess, Darlene M. Harris, Theresa Kail-Smith, R. Daniel Lavelle, Bruce A. Kraus, Patrick Dowd, Natalia Rudiak
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 01 - ADMINISTRATIVE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/15/2010	2	Mayor	Returned Unsigned
2/2/2010	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
1/27/2010	2	Committee on Finance and Law	AMENDED	Pass
1/27/2010	2	Committee on Finance and Law	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
1/20/2010	1	Committee on Finance and Law	Held in Committee	Pass
1/12/2010	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title I-Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, Chapter 161-Contracts, to require contractors who provide building service and food services to the City of Pittsburgh to pay prevailing wages to employees employed pursuant to such contracts, and to require that building service, food service, grocery, and hotel employees employed on projects receiving City subsidies be paid prevailing wages.







Body
The Pittsburgh Code, Title I-Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, Chapter 161-Contracts, is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

§ 161.05 SPECIFICATIONS

(a) Every contract shall comply with County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act of August 15, 1961; P.L. 987, No. 442, as amended August 9, 1963, P.L. 653, No. 342, 43 P.S. §165-1 et seq. (West 1992 & Supp. 2004), and with the City of Pittsburgh Service Worker Prevailing Wage Ordinance, Title I, Article VII, Section 161.4038.

§ 161.16 REQUIRED PROVISIONS IN CONTRACTS


(e) Every contract shall contain a provision stating that the contractor and all of its subcontractors shall pay at least the applicable prevailing wages as shall have been determined by the City Controller pursuant to the City of Pittsburgh Service Worker Prevailing Wage Ordinance, Title I, Article VII, Section 161.4038(I)(B), and as shall have been determined by the Secretary of Labor and Industry to the workers employed in the performance of any contract for public work subject to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act approved August 15, 1961, P.L. 987, No. 442, as amended August 9, 1963, P.L. 653, No. 342, 43 P.S. § 165-1et seq. (West 1992 & Supp. 2004), and the regulations issued pursuant thereto. Every contract shall contain a provision stating there may be withheld from any sums due to the contractor or subcontractor so much as may be necessary to pay...