File #: 051257    Version: Name: Sweatfree Ordinance
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Introduced: 6/28/2005 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: Final action: 9/16/2005
Enactment date: Enactment #: 223-05
Title: Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code by adding Chapter 12U, finding that the City would benefit by spending its funds in a manner that would support safe and humane working conditions; requiring contractors and subcontractors providing goods to the City and County to comply with laws and standards affecting labor and employment conditions for employees performing work under the contract and subcontracts, including:not engaging in abusive forms of child labor, foreign convict or forced labor, or slave labor; and compliance with all human and labor rights and labor standards imposed by law or treaty law on the country where the goods are being made or assembled; paying wages that are not less than a minimum wage established by the Director of the Office of Contract Administration; compliance with all applicable laws governing wages, employee benefits, health and safety, labor, environmental conditions, nondiscrimination, freedom of association; creating the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group to make recommendations on the implementation, administration or enforcement of this Chapter to the Director of the Office of Contract Administration and the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement; targeting the procurement of garments for enforcement of this Chapter during the first full fiscal year following the effective date of the Chapter, and, thereafter, targeting other goods for enforcement based on recommendations of the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group submitted by the Director of the Office of Contract Administration to the Board of Supervisors and approved by ordinance.
Sponsors: Mayor, Tom Ammiano, Michela Alioto-Pier, Chris Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, Sophie Maxwell, Jake McGoldrick, Bevan Dufty, Fiona Ma, Gerardo Sandoval
Attachments: 1. Leg_Ver1, 2. Leg_Ver2, 3. Leg_Ver3, 4. Leg_Final
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