(1) Within forty-five days after this Section becomes law, the Personnel Director shall transmit to the Mayor, the President of City Council, and to the Civil Service Commission recommended guidelines for the City's hiring of Returning Citizens, and recommendations for increasing public, private and non-profit sector employment of Returning Citizens, including identifying barriers to such employment and ways to remove such barriers.
(2) In developing the recommendations required by subsection (1), the Personnel Director shall first develop, in cooperation with the Director of R.I.S.E. (as defined in subsection 9-2604(9)(a)(.6)), the Philadelphia Prison System, the Department of Human Services (DHS), Community Behavioral Health (CBH), the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, any other appropriate city, state or federal agencies, the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation, chambers of commerce, other business advocacy organizations throughout the City, and organizations that provide re-entry/Returning Citizen services, a matrix of job titles and work categories matched to Returning Citizen's criminal offenses and work skills that can be used to help the City and other employers identify jobs appropriate for potential employees with criminal records. 118
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117 | Amended, Bill No. 130769 (approved December 4, 2013). |
118 | Amended, Bill No. 100369 (approved June 30, 2010). |