Yesterday, the San Jose City Council voted to include wage theft as one the of City’s 2019 priorities.
The City’s current Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance, which was originally enacted in 2016, excluded one of the industries most impacted by wage theft: construction. Since 2011, approximately 7,000 Bay Area construction workers at over 500 companies have had their wages stolen from them – and that includes only documented cases resulting in final federal administrative decisions and/or state judgements.
The change needed to update the City ordinance to include construction workers does not require much staff time, it simply means adding the construction industry to the list of those covered by the law. As such, it is unclear why the Mayor forced the issue- which had already been prioritized in 2016 – to go through the hurdle of being re-prioritized to simply include protections for construction workers.
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