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Attachment 2 8 <br /> Memorandum <br /> 1== <br /> I' <br /> To: John Roberts <br /> CC: Bonnie Hammersley <br /> From: Cheryl Young <br /> Re: Living Wage <br /> I <br /> k <br /> Per the request of County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, I attempted to contact North Carolina <br /> ( <br /> jurisdictions with living wage requirements for contractors to gather information regarding their <br /> programs. As you experienced,I was not successful in gathering information in that manner. I did <br /> locate some information online that offers insight into some of the programs. <br /> Specifically,the City of Durham enacted a Livable Wage Ordinance in January of 1998. The ordinance <br /> requires that employees of Contractors and subcontractors of the City receive at least the minimum <br /> i <br /> hourly wage paid to its employees. The provision only applies to those contracts for services to the City <br /> and its agencies which the City could provide for itself with its own employees and does not include <br /> G <br /> contracts governed by state or federal procurement or bidding requirements or those whose services <br /> are performed by non-profit,tax exempt organizations. As such, nonprofits generally are not covered by <br /> the livable wage requirement,although there is a provision allowing the City to proactively make a <br /> contract with a nonprofit subject to the provision IF the City could have provided the contracted service <br /> with its own employees. The goal of the ordinance is to make certain that the living wage requirement <br /> is not circumvented by hiring outside contractors to fulfill tasks. <br /> That ordinance appears to apply the living wage only to employees working on the contract. The City <br /> also appears to rely upon the Contractors workers to report violations to the City. A copy of the <br /> ordinance is attached for your review. <br /> Although the City f Durham appears to still be using a livable wage ordinance,the County of Durham �r <br /> Y <br /> has,in light of the legislation restricting it's applicability to exclude contracts subject to state or federal <br /> procurement or bidding requirement's,eliminated the applicability of their living wage ordinance to <br /> contractors,opting instead to expand their living wage ordinance to part-time and seasonal workers. . <br /> Prior to the change,the County included the requirement in their contracts and required quarterly <br /> reports from the contractor. The year prior to the ordinance's revision,the County noted that the <br /> policy only applied to 81 out of over 800 contracts. It appears the provision applied only to employees <br /> doing work on the County contract. Durham County also, however,exempted service contracts with <br /> non-profit groups from the living wage requirement.A copy of the Durham County revised policy is <br /> r <br /> attached. <br /> i= <br />