5737-S2.E AMH FARR REIL 060

E2SSB 5737 - H AMD TO GGIT COMM AMD (H2605.1/15) 465

By Representative Farrell

    On page 3, line 8 of the striking amendment, after "limitations" insert ". As part of its strategic plan, an agency must include measurable goals for public contracting that promote the creation of jobs that allow workers to support themselves and their families with dignity, and protect workers and public health and safety by contracting with private contractors and vendors that provide living wages and paid sick and safe leave as follows:

    (a) Contractors, subcontractors, and vendors that pay to each of his or her employees who are at least eighteen years of age a minimum wage rate of: ten dollars per hour beginning January 1, 2016; ten dollars and fifty cents per hour beginning January 1, 2017; eleven dollars per hour beginning January 1, 2018; and twelve dollars per hour beginning January 1, 2019. Beginning January 1, 2020, the hourly minimum wage rate base of twelve dollars per hour must be increased by the rate of inflation each year as calculated pursuant to RCW 49.46.020; and

    (b) Contractors, subcontractors, and vendors that have a policy to provide at least one hour of paid sick and safe leave for every forty hours worked to each of his or her employees and that the employees may use at least forty hours of accrued leave each year"

EFFECT: Requires agencies to set measurable goals for public contracting that contractors and vendors provide minimum wage rates and paid sick and safe leave.  

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