Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2021-4644

• Record #: SO2021-4644
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 10/14/2021
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Workforce Development
• Final action: 12/15/2021
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Title 6 by modifying various sections and adding new Sections 6-100-010 and 6-100-030 regarding worker protections
• Sponsors: Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 6 - Worker Protections - Ch. 100 General Employment Requirements, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 6 - Worker Protections - Ch. 105 Chicago Minimum Wage and Paid Secure Leave Ordinance, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 6 - Worker Protections - Ch. 110 Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
12/15/2021	42668	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
12/2/2021		Committee on Workforce Development	Recommended to Pass
10/14/2021	38283	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. Section 6-100-010 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby re­numbered as Section 6-105-015, as indicated by adding the language underscored, and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:

€-100-010 6-105-015 Procedures for payment of wages.
No person engaged in any business within the city shall issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness for wages due an employee for labor, any acknowledgement of indebtedness, including but not limited to scrip, time checks or store orders, unless such evidence of indebtedness is payable or redeemable upon demand, without discount and for face value in lawful money of the United States at the office or place of business of such person.


SECTION 2. A new Section 6-100-010 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby created by adding the language underscored, as follows:

6-100-010 Definitions.
For purposes of this title, the following definitions apply:

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection or the Commissioner's designee.
"CPI" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers most recently published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.

"Department" means the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.
"Family member" means a Covered Employee's child, ward, legal guardian, parent, spouse under the laws of anv state, domestic partner, spouse or domestic partner's parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or anv other individual related by blood or whose close association with the Employee is the eguivalent of a family relationship. A child includes not only a biological relationship, but also a relationship resulting from an adoption, step-relationship, and/or foster care relationship, or a child to whom the Employee stands in loco parentis. A parent includes a biological, foster, step-parent or adoptive parent or legal g...