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Key Points of the Proposed Cleveland Living Wage Ordinance

1. Who will be affected?
      Any employer who receives financial benefits from their relationship with the City worth $100,000 or more in a year (e.g., vendors. contractors. recipients of tax breaks or investment incentives, etc.), including the city itself, would be covered. The law would be effective for profit-making operations with 20 or more employees, and non-profits with 50 or more.

      Welfare-to-work program recipients are covered

2. What will be the requirements?

      Workers must be paid at least the hourly equivalent of 110% of Federal poverty level income for a family of four (currently over $8.90)

      Workers must be given employer-paid family health coverage, based on what is provided in the City's contracts with its own workers

      Employers must guarantee not to interfere with workers' right to organize a union if they wish to have one


3. What about prevailing-wage rules?
This ordinance will not countermand any prevailing-wage rule, nor will it be used to reduce wages or benefits in collective bargaining agreements. Any compensation that workers receive that is better than the living wage shall remain in force.
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