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Committee advances wide-ranging prevailing wage revisions, narrows nonprofit exemption and tightens contractor definitions
Summary
Supervisor Scott Wiener's amendments to the city's prevailing wage ordinance expand covered contracts, create a six-month employee transition period, narrow a nonprofit exemption to carve out work-experience programs for people with disabilities, and redefine certain independent contractors as employees; the committee voted to send the item to the full Board with amendments and BAO cost estimates.
Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced revisions to the San Francisco prevailing wage ordinance that would broaden covered contract types, consolidate enforcement standards, add a six-month transition/retention period for workers when contracts change, and clarify that work covered by city contracts must be performed by employees rather than independent contractors in certain sectors.
Wiener said his office worked with departments, nonprofits, and labor to remove a broad nonprofit exemption…
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