First Source Employment Agreement Act of 1984
a) For each government-supported project or contract, the Mayor shall require the recipient to enter into a contract of employment with the Government of the District of Columbia that specifies: (b) When selecting unemployed district residents from the first source registry for interviews for all jobs covered by each employment contract, the Mayor must: (F) (i) Tenders and proposals responding to a call for a project or contract supported by the Government within the meaning of this paragraph. contains an initial employment plan outlining the bidder`s or bidder`s strategy for meeting local recruitment requirements as part of its response to the invitation. These plans shall be evaluated and evaluated by the Mayor on the basis of the criteria set out in paragraphs I, II and III of this paragraph. The score must be 10% of the total score of the offer or offer. The employment plan includes the following: Strict reporting requirements have been issued to monitor recipients` efforts to comply with the amended Early Sources Act. From the start of a project or contract to the completion of construction and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, recipients must submit monthly compliance reports to DOES. This includes, but is not limited to, information on the number of employees hired to work on a project, the number of new jobs created, the number of employees transferred from other positions, the number of vacancies listed on DOES, the total direct and indirect labour costs of the project or contract, the number of district residents hired for the reference period and the Social Security number, Job title, date of hire and reference source for all newly hired employees. For projects or contracts with a total value of $5,000,000 or more, certified copies of the pay slips of all contractors working on a project must be submitted to DOES. Developers, general contractors and subcontractors operating in the District of Columbia ("District") should exercise caution before entering into certain agreements to provide construction-related services. The District of Columbia`s First Source and Living Wage Establishment and Reform Act of 2011, commonly referred to as the amended First Source Act, is the most recent law passed by the district to reduce unemployment and increase the city`s tax base. (ii) recommendations provided by the Ministry of Employment Services and other sources of recommendation; and (v) in the case of government-sponsored projects or contracts referred to in paragraph 1A or 1C of this Subsection, if the Recipient has submitted and substantially complied with its most recent employment plan approved by the Ministry of Employment Services; and (B) Before the acceptance of the employment contract by the Department of Employment Services, each beneficiary covered by this paragraph chooses whether the 51% of newly hired employees must be: business and economic development, tenant companies in the "Business Incubator" program, execution of first-hand employment contracts, see § 2-1209.08. XII) a strategy to ensure that district residents working on the project or contract have ongoing employment and training opportunities after completion of the work for which they were originally hired, and a review of past practices for the continued employment of district residents from one project or contract to another; The term "first source" is not new to the building community, but the amended law promises to have a much greater impact than the original 1984 law.
Under the original law, a beneficiary, that is, a party to an agreement with the district that received at least $100,000 in contracts or other financial support from the district, had to agree to fill 51% of all new construction, apprenticeship or internship jobs for projects funded with district residents. In other words, the "first source" of employee search to fill new positions was unemployed residents registered with the District Employment Services Department ("DO"). The Primary Source Act requires all beneficiaries of contractual agreements totalling $300,000 or more to enter into a primary employment agreement with the Ministry of Employment Services. (4) (A) The intentional breach of the employment contract or the failure to submit the required recruitment report in accordance with subsections (1), (1A), (1B) or (1C) of this paragraph or the intentional submission of falsified data shall be executed by the Mayor by imposing a fine of 5% of the total amount of the direct and indirect labour costs of the project or contract, in addition to other penalties provided for by law. (ii) The successful bidder or bidder must submit a revised employment plan to the Mayor for approval prior to the commencement of work related to the relevant government project or contract. The employment plan shall include: (iv) After its approval, the employment plan required under paragraph (ii) of this paragraph may be amended only with the consent of the Mayor. For more than 30 years, First Source has been one of the drivers of the district`s strategy to reduce unemployment by ensuring that D.C. residents have priority for new jobs created by local government-supported projects or contracts. (C) Within the framework of the employment plan referred to in point F(ii) of this paragraph, each beneficiary referred to in this paragraph shall choose whether all the conditions required for work in residence are to be as follows: (1) the first source of search for workers to fill all jobs created by the Project or State-sponsored contract; is the register of the first sources; and (II) a description of the Bidder`s or Bidder`s efforts to provide continuing employment and training opportunities to district residents after they have completed the work in the position for which they were originally hired; and (B) collective agreements do not provide a basis for derogating from this requirement.
(29 June 1984, D.C. Law 5-93, § 4, 31 DCR 2545; 17 March 1993, D.C. Law 9-210, § 2(c), 40 DCR 19; 6 September 2001, D.C. Law 14-24, § 2, 48 DCR 5793; 8 April 2005, D.C. Law 15-295, § 3, 52 DCR 1479; 24 February 2012, D.C. Law 19-84, § 2(b), 58 DCR 11170.) The Office of Early Source Compliance has upgraded FORRS to improve monitoring capabilities and support first-source reporting. The new features include additional data fields that capture and track direct and indirect labor costs, as well as staff statistics such as job titles, staff turnover, and referral sources for new hires. c) The Mayor submits each employment contract to the Ministry of Employment Services at least 7 calendar days before the start of the project or contract, whichever is later, and no work related to the relevant government assistance may begin with a project or contract until the employment contract has been accepted by the Ministry of Employment Services. . . .