(a) Requirements.
(1) The following employees or persons shall be paid a "living wage":
A. Any person who is an employee of a contractor or subcontractor on or under a contract with the City and who is directly working under that contract;
B. Any person who is an employee of a City financial assistance recipient, their contractor or subcontractor, and who works at a site or expends at least one half of his or her time working on the project or portion of business that receives City financial assistance;
C. Any person who is an employee of a tenant who financially benefits from the City of Toledo's financial assistance to the property.
(b) Payment of a living wage and/or health benefits by employer.
(1) All employers governed by this section shall pay employees a "living wage" of no less than $8.58 per hour, or 110% of the updated federal poverty level for a family of four, whichever is greater.
(2) A. Employers shall make available single coverage health benefits that do not cost their employees more than 15% of the employees' monthly wages, except to those employees within an established probationary period that does not exceed sixty (60) work days.
B. Employers not providing single coverage health benefits as formulated in section 187.36 B.(2)(a) shall pay a living wage of no less than $ 10.14 or 130% of the updated federal poverty level for a family of four (4), whichever is greater.
(3) All employees working for the City of Toledo shall be paid at least a living wage upon completion of their probationary periods. Work presently being performed by City of Toledo bargaining unit employees may not be subcontracted out unless either (1) the contractor pays employees performing that work at least a living wage, or (2) the contractor meets greater requirements for subcontracting provided in the City of Toledo collective bargaining agreement or elsewhere in the Toledo Municipal Code.
(c) Exemptions. The following recipients are exempted from the requirements of this section: (1) contractors or subcontractors with fewer than twenty-five (25) employees; (2) financial assistance recipients with fewer than fifty (50) employees; (3) recipients of Community Development Block Grant funding; (4) seasonal employees; (5) Interns; (6) nonprofit organizations whose sole purpose is to provide cultural, social or educational services; (7) organizations whose primary mission is to provide job readiness and training services, and whose sole purpose of requesting funding is to provide those services; (8) businesses that pay their employees the prevailing wage rate, or pay their employees pursuant to the Davis Bacon Act; (9) Volunteers; (10) contractors, subcontractors or employees of financial assistance recipients working on a project which the Mayor has determined is crucial to the economic development of the City. No more than two (2) exemptions pursuant to subparagraph (c)(10) shall be granted during any calendar year.
(Ord. 882-03. Passed 12-23-03.)