De Blasio Administration Skirts Reporting Provisions in Living Wage Law
SARINA TRANGLE
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has presented himself as a champion of the living wage law. He has budgeted for raises that bring nonprofit staff contracted to perform social services in sync with the pay mandate and signed an executive order broadening the initiative’s scope.
Yet progress on public disclosure provisions of the law appear not to have kept pace with the mayor’s pronouncements.
The City Council passed the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act—colloquially called the living wage law—in 2012. The legislation mandates that any project receiving $1 million or more in city benefits pay workers $10 an hour with benefits or $11.50 an hour without—with increases tied to consumer price index changes. While former Mayor Michael Bloomberg opposed the bill, lawmakers overrode his veto, and the matter wound up in court.
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