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File #: 22-1175   
Type: Item from Council Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 1/12/2022 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/27/2022 Final action: 1/27/2022
Title: Approve a resolution directing the City Manager to initiate an ordinance to assist employees working within the city-limits to file complaints for unpaid wages and require those employers to take certain actions to ensure employees are paid wages due; determine strategies necessary to collaborate with local law enforcement to address allegations of wage theft; and develop a plan to maintain a database of final determinations of state and federal labor violations committed in the City of Austin.
Sponsors: Council Member Ann Kitchen, Council Member Gregorio Casar, Council Member Kathie Tovo, Council Member Vanessa Fuentes, Sabino "Pio" Renteria
Attachments: 1. Draft Resolution, 2. Recommendation for Action, 3. Misclassification Factsheet, 4. Wage Theft Fact Sheet, 5. Letter from DA Garza, 6. Letter of Support Central Texas Building Trades, 7. Revised Draft Resolution, 8. Letter, 9. Letter
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Approve a resolution directing the City Manager to initiate an ordinance to assist employees working within the city-limits to file complaints for unpaid wages and require those employers to take certain actions to ensure employees are paid wages due; determine strategies necessary to collaborate with local law enforcement to address allegations of wage theft; and develop a plan to maintain a database of final determinations of state and federal labor violations committed in the City of Austin.

 

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Council Member Ann Kitchen, Co-sponsor: Council Member Gregorio Casar, Co-sponsor: Council Member Kathie Tovo, Co-sponsor: Council Member Vanessa Fuentes, Co-sponsor: Council Member Sabino “Pio” Renteria