Equal Benefits Clause. No awarding authority of the City, shall execute or amend any contract with any contractor that discriminates in the provision of bereavement leave, family medical leave, health benefits, membership or membership performed by many employees employed by City contractors and subcontractors. In a very real sense, the success or failure of City operations may turn on the success or failure of these enterprises, for the City has a genuine stake in how the public perceives the services rendered for them by such businesses. Discrimination in the provision of employee benefits between employees with domestic partners and employees with spouses results in unequal pay for equal work. Los Angeles law prohibits discrimination based on marital status and/or sexual orientation. The City's departments and contracting agents are required to place in all City contracts a provision that the company choosing to do business with the City agrees to comply with the City's nondiscrimination laws. It is the City's intent, through the contracting practices outlined in this Ordinance, to assure that those companies choosing to do business with the City will equalize the total compensation between similarly situated employees with spouses and with domestic partners. The provisions of this Ordinance are designed to insure that the City's contractors will maintain a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining capable employees, thereby improving the quality of the goods and services the City and its people receive, and insuring protection of the City's property. discounts, moving expenses, pension and retirement benefits or travel benefits as well as any other benefits between employees with domestic partners and employees with spouses, and/or between the domestic partners and spouses of such employees, where the domestic partnership has been registered with a governmental entity pursuant to state or local law authorizing such registration, or an internal registry maintained by the contractor, subject to the provisions of this section. In the event that the contractor's actual cost of providing a certain benefit for the domestic partner of an employee exceeds that of providing it for the spouse of an employee, or the contractor's actual cost of providing a certain benefit for the spouse of an employee exceeds that of providing it for the domestic partner of an employee, the contractor shall not be deemed to discriminate in the provision of benefits if the contractor conditions p...
Equal Benefits Clause. If the other bargaining unit (ATA) receives a base pay increase, or enhanced health benefit(s), greater than the increase agreed on by O.A.P.S.E., differences shall be automatically implemented to the classified bargaining unit effective the same dates the other bargaining unit benefits are placed in effect.
