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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
3
051257
Name:
Sweatfree Ordinance
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Passed
File created:
In control:
6/28/2005
Board of Supervisors
On agenda:
Final action:
9/16/2005
Enactment date:
223-05
Enactment #:
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
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED
President
6/29/2005
1
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE
WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE
Budget and Finance Committee
8/4/2005
1
RECOMMENDED AS AMENDED
Budget and Finance Committee
8/4/2005
2
Pass
PASSED ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors
8/16/2005
2
Pass
AMENDED
Board of Supervisors
9/6/2005
2
Pass
PASSED ON FIRST READING AS
AMENDED
Board of Supervisors
9/6/2005
3
Pass
FINALLY PASSED
Board of Supervisors
9/13/2005
3
Pass
APPROVED
Mayor
9/16/2005
3