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DC Code § 32-709 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7 - Health Care Benefits Expansion|§ 32-709. Rulemaking

(a) The Mayor shall, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2, issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter. (b) The proposed rules shall be submitted to the Council for a 45-day period of review, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays and days of Council recess. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed rules, in whole or in part, by resolution within this 45-day period, the proposed rules shall be deemed approved. Nothing in this section shall affect any requirements imposed upon the Mayor by subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2.  (June 11, 1992, D.C. Law 9-114, § 10, 39 DCR 2861.)  Resolutions Resolution 14-459, the “Domestic Partnership Registration Procedures and Fees Approval Resolution of 2002”, was approved effective June 14, 2002. Resolution 16-920, the “Domestic Partnership Health Care Benefits Expansion Amendment Rulemaking Approval Resolution of 2006”, was approved effective November 25, 2006. Resolution 18-404, the “Domestic Partnership Certified List of Jurisdictions Approval Resolution of 2010”, was approved effective March 2, 2010.
DC Code § 32-710 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7 - Health Care Benefits Expansion|§ 32-710. Effect on existing rights and benefits

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall supersede any provision of law that provides more generous rights or benefits than the domestic partnership or family membership rights and benefits provided pursuant to this chapter. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to discourage an employer from providing more generous rights or benefits than the domestic partnership or family membership rights or benefits provided pursuant to this chapter. (c) Nothing in this chapter shall diminish an employer’s obligation to comply with a collective bargaining agreement or an employment benefits program or plan that provides more generous rights or benefits than the domestic partnership or family membership rights or benefits provided pursuant to this chapter. (d) The domestic partnership or family membership rights or benefits provided pursuant to this chapter shall not be diminished by a collective bargaining agreement or an employment benefit program or plan, except that this chapter shall not supersede any clause on domestic partnership or family membership rights or benefits in a collective bargaining agreement in force on June 11, 1992, excluding any extension or renewal after such date, that the collective bargaining agreement is in effect. (e) No provision of this chapter shall exempt or relieve, or be construed to exempt or relieve, any person from any duty, liability, penalty, or obligation to provide relief under Chapter 14 of Title 2. (f) This chapter provides registration and other mechanisms to reduce discrimination prohibited under Chapter 14 of Title 2.  (June 11, 1992, D.C. Law 9-114, § 12, 39 DCR 2861.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 36-1408. Emergency Legislation For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of Impacted Resident Economic Assistance Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-165, November 6, 2001, 48 DCR 10413). Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) additions, see §§ 2 to 6 of Impacted Resident Economic Assistance Temporary Act of 2001 (D.C. Law 14-72, February 27, 2002, law notification 49 DCR 2282).
DC Code § 32-731 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7A - Health Coverage Continuation|§ 32-731. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking. (2) “Covered individual” means a person whose coverage under an employer’s health benefits plan is continued under this chapter. (3) “Health benefits plan” means any accident and health insurance policy or certificate, hospital and medical services corporation contract, health maintenance organization subscriber contract, plan provided by a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or plan provided by another benefit arrangement. The term “health benefit plan” does not mean accident only, credit, or disability insurance; coverage of Medicare services or federal employee health plans, pursuant to contracts with the United States government; Medicare supplemental or long-term care insurance; dental only or vision only insurance; specified disease insurance; hospital confinement indemnity coverage; limited benefit health coverage; coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, insurance arising out of a worker’s compensation or similar law; automobile medical payment insurance; medical expense and loss of income benefits; or insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and that is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or equivalent self-insurance. (4) “Health insurer” means any person that provides one or more health benefit plans or insurance in the District of Columbia, including an insurer, a hospital and medical services corporation, a fraternal benefit society, a health maintenance organization, a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or any other person providing a plan of health insurance subject to the authority of the Commissioner.  (June 25, 2002, D.C. Law 14-149, § 2, 49 DCR 4233; June 11, 2004, D.C. Law 15-166, § 4(ii), 51 DCR 2817.)  Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 15-166, in par. (1), substituted “Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking” for “Commissioner of the Department of Insurance and Securities Regulation”. Emergency Legislation For temporary (90 day) addition of §§ 32-731 to 32-734, see §§ 2 to 5 of Continuation of Health Coverage Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-214, December 17, 2001, 49 DCR 377). For temporary (90 day) addition of §§ 32-731 to 32-734, see § 2 of Continuation of Health Coverage Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2002 (D.C. Act 14-304, March 25, 2002, 49 DCR 3399). For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 4(ii) of Consolidation of Financial Services Emergency Amendment Act of 2004 (D.C. Act 15-381, February 27, 2004, 51 DCR 2653). Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) addition, see § 2 of Continuation of Health Coverage Temporary Act of 2002 (D.C. Law 14-108, April 13, 2002, law notification 49 DCR 4056).
DC Code § 32-733 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7A - Health Coverage Continuation|§ 32-733. Regulations

The Commissioner may issue rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.  (June 25, 2002, D.C. Law 14-149, § 4, 49 DCR 4233.)  Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) addition, see § 4 of Continuation of Health Coverage Temporary Act of 2002 (D.C. Law 14-108, April 13, 2002, law notification 49 DCR 4056).
DC Code § 32-734 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7A - Health Coverage Continuation|§ 32-734. Applicability

This chapter shall apply to contracts issued or renewed by health insurers on or after January 16, 2002.  (June 25, 2002, D.C. Law 14-149, § 5, 49 DCR 4233.)  Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) addition, see § 5 of Continuation of Health Coverage Temporary Act of 2002 (D.C. Law 14-108, April 13, 2002, law notification 49 DCR 4056).
DC Code § 32-751 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-751. Definitions

For purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Employment Services. (2) “Grantee” means any person or entity that receives a grant from the District to provide workforce development services. (3) “Job skills-deficient resident” means an individual resident of the District whose employment opportunities are restricted by deficiencies in education, work experience, work training, work skills, or the loss of certain occupations or industries from the economy of the District or the Washington Metropolitan Area and whose job skills deficiencies and residence is determined and certified by the Director. (4) “Low-income District resident” means an individual resident of the District whose personal or family income in the previous 6 months on an annualized basis does not exceed 200% of the lower living standard income level and whose income and residence is certified by the Director. (5) “Workforce Investment Council” means the body created pursuant to § 32-1603.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 202, 53 DCR 2602.)
DC Code § 32-752 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-752. Establishment and administration of the Job Opportunity Bank

(a) There is established a Job Opportunity Bank for the purpose of providing grants and other forms of financial assistance to increase job opportunities for low-income District residents to upgrade their job skills and provide customized skills training for new and incumbent workers employed by District employers. (b) The Job Opportunity Bank shall be subject to the general policy guidance and direction of the Workforce Investment Council. (c) The Workforce Investment Council shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Mayor and the Director in matters pertaining to the operation and administration of the Job Opportunity Bank. (d) The Job Opportunity Bank shall be funded by annual appropriations. (e) The funds shall be administered by the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. (f) The Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development may fund applications for grants or other assistance as may be recommended by the Director under the provisions of this chapter.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 203, 53 DCR 2602; Mar. 2, 2007, D.C. Law 16-192, § 2192, 53 DCR 6899; Mar. 25, 2009, D.C. Law 17-353, § 318(b), 56 DCR 1117.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 1-328.05. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-192 rewrote subsecs. (e) and (f). D.C. Law 17-353, in subsec. (f), substituted “The” for “Subject to the availability of funds, the”. Emergency Legislation For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2192 of Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2006 (D.C. Act 16-477, August 8, 2006, 53 DCR 7068). For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2192 of Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2006 (D.C. Act 16-499, October 23, 2006, 53 DCR 8845). For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2192 of Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2007 (D.C. Act 17-1, January 16, 2007, 54 DCR 1165). Short Title Short title: Section 2191 of D.C. Law 16-192 provided that subtitle P of title II of the act may be cited as the “Job Opportunity Fund Clarification Act of 2006”.
DC Code § 32-753 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-753. Eligibility for grants

The following individuals and groups shall be eligible to receive grants or other assistance from the Job Opportunity Bank: (1) Low-income District residents; (2) Job skills-deficient residents; (3) District businesses, business coalitions, or nonprofit organizations partnered with District businesses or business coalitions seeking to hire low-income District residents or job skills-deficient residents and develop a workforce from those individuals; or (4) District businesses, business coalitions, or nonprofit organizations partnered with District businesses or business coalitions seeking to upgrade the skills of their current workforce, composed of at least 51% District residents, in order to maintain the employment of the current workforce.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 204, 53 DCR 2602.)
DC Code § 32-754 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-754. Grant applications and priorities

(a) Grant applications shall be made at the time and in the manner designated by the Director. (b) Grant applications shall include a detailed budget, cost benefit analysis, identifiable performance benchmarks, and a general description of the employment benefits to be derived by the recipient. (c) The Director shall accept simplified grant applications from District residents seeking basic employment or job training skills. (d) Grant applications made by District businesses, business coalitions and partnered-nonprofit organizations shall also include a proposed workforce development program model demonstrating an effective approach to increasing the employability of program participants or the retention of their current workforce and which is directly linked to existing or anticipated employment opportunities. Applications made pursuant to this subsection may be utilized to significantly enhance the skill levels and career opportunities of current employees who are residents of the District. (e) In evaluating grant applications for decisions as to funding, the Director shall give priority to those applications which the Director determines best serve low-income District residents or job skills-deficient residents in the following categories: (1) Youths between 18 and 21 years of age; (2) Recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; (3) Dislocated workers; (4) Ex-offenders; (5) Veterans; and (6) District residents deficient in job skills. (f) In determining whether to fund grant applications, the Director shall consider, in addition to the criteria set forth in subsections (d) and (e) of this section, the following: (1) The amount of funds available in the Job Opportunity Bank; (2) Available and reliable information concerning the current and future labor market; (3) Non-duplication of funding available through section 112 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, approved August 7, 1998 (112 Stat. 936; 29 U.S.C. § 2822) and other federal, state, or local job development and job training programs; and (4) Any prior experience of the applicant with job training or workforce development programs.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 205, 53 DCR 2602.)
DC Code § 32-755 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-755. Grant agreements

Each grantee shall, as a condition for the receipt of funds from the Job Opportunity Bank, enter into a grant agreement with the Director, the form and contents of which shall be specified by the Director, which shall at least contain the following: (1) The name, address, and telephone number of any individual grant recipient; (2) The name, address, telephone number, and identity of the corporate officers, principal owners, and registered agent of any incorporated grantee; and (3) Acknowledgment by the recipient of the right of the Director to: (A) Monitor expenditure of funds; (B) Require reports from recipients regarding expenditures, progress, or performance in meeting identified benchmarks, and any other financial or operational information deemed necessary by the Director, (C) Inspect the recipient’s records to obtain the identified information; and (D) Acknowledgment by the recipient that the Director may curtail or cancel payment of funds from the Job Opportunity Bank if the recipient does not comply with the requirements of this section.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 206, 53 DCR 2602.)
DC Code § 32-756 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7B - Job Opportunity Bank|§ 32-756. Grantee performance evaluation

(a) The Director shall monitor and evaluate the performance of grantees. The Director may terminate or modify grant agreements if the Director determines that a grantee’s performance is not in accordance with the grant. Grantees that have their grants cancelled or modified may appeal the Director’s action pursuant to § 2-510. (b) The Mayor shall issue rules to implement this chapter. The rules shall be issued within 120 days of June 8, 2006.  (June 8, 2006, D.C. Law 16-118, § 207, 53 DCR 2602.)  Cross References Occupational safety and health, planning, repeal of this subchapter, see § 32-1124.
DC Code § 32-772 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 7C - Job Training and Adult Education Programs Quarterly Reports|§ 32-772. Department of Employment Services annual report on year-round youth programs

(a) Starting December 15, 2020, and annually thereafter, the Department of Employment Services ("Department") shall publish on its website and submit to the Council a report on the operations of its year-round youth programs, including: (1) The In-School Youth Program; (2) The Out-of-School Youth Program; (3) The Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute; (4) Pathways for Young Adults Program; (5) Youth Earn and Learn Program; (6) The High School Internship Program; (7) In-School Youth Innovation Grants; and (8) In-school DCHR internship program. (b) The report shall include the following information for each program from the previous fiscal year: (1) The number of participants newly enrolled; (2) The total number of participants, disaggregated by ward, grade, school, age, and, if known, at-risk status; (3) Each program's total expenditures, disaggregated by fund type (federal, local, intra-District, or special purpose revenue funds); and (4) The names of any vendors, grantees, host employers (including public schools and public charter schools for the High School Internship Program), host sites, or other organizations providing services to youth. (c) The Department may withhold from the report required pursuant to subsection (b) of this section any information precluded from release by federal law, rule, or policy; provided, that, if at a later time, such information may be released, the Department shall supplement the next annual report following the date on which the information may be shared with the withheld information. (d) For the purposes of this section, the term "at-risk" means a public school, public charter school, private school, or homeschool student who is identified as one or more of the following: (1) Homeless; (2) In the District's foster care system; (3) Qualifies for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; or (4) A high school student that is one year older, or more, than the expected age for the grade in which the student is enrolled.  (Sept. 20, 2012, D.C. Law 19-168, § 2083; as added Dec. 3, 2020, D.C. Law 23-149, § 2103, 67 DCR 10493.)
DC Code § 32-851 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 8A - Labor Peace Agreements for Hotel Development Projects|§ 32-851. Findings and declarations

(a) In the course of managing real property that it owns or in otherwise carrying out its functions in the public interest, the District may participate in real property developments as a property owner, lessor, proprietor, lender, or guarantor, facing similar risks and liabilities as other business entities participating in such ventures. As a result, the District has an ongoing proprietary interest in these developments and a direct interest in their financial performance. (b) The District must make prudent management decisions, similar to any private business entity, to ensure efficient management of its business concerns and to maximize benefits and minimize risks. One risk is the possibility of labor-management conflict. (c) A major potential outcome of labor-management conflict is economic action by labor unions against employers. Experience of municipal and other investors demonstrates, for example, that organizing drives pursuant to the formal and adversarial union certification process often deteriorate into protracted and acrimonious labor-management conflict. Labor-management conflict can result in construction delays, work stoppages, picketing, strikes, consumer boycotts, and other forms of adverse economic pressure. Such conflict may adversely affect the District’s financial or other proprietary business interests by causing delay in the completion of a project, reducing the revenues or increasing the costs of the project, and by generating negative publicity. (d) These risks are heightened in the hotel industry because this industry is so closely related to tourism, which is a linchpin of the District economy. Labor-management conflict in hotel projects in which the District is an economic participant can jeopardize the operation of related tourist and commercial facilities, as well as the District’s national reputation as a tourist and convention destination. (e) One method of reducing the risk to the District’s proprietary interests is to require, as a condition of the District’s investment or other economic participation in a development project, that employers taking part in the development project seek agreements with labor organizations in which the labor organizations agree to forbear from adverse economic action against the employers’ operations.  (Apr. 2, 2003, D.C. Law 14-266, § 2, 50 DCR 412.)
DC Code § 32-853 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 8A - Labor Peace Agreements for Hotel Development Projects|§ 32-853. Contents of labor peace agreement

(a) The labor peace agreement shall be a written agreement between the employer and the labor organization that contains, at a minimum, a provision prohibiting the labor organization and its members from engaging in any picketing, work stoppage, boycott, or other economic interference with the employer’s operations in which the District has a proprietary interest, for the duration of the interest. (b) The labor peace agreement shall be enforceable under section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, approved July 23, 1947 (61 Stat. 156; [29 U.S.C. § 185(a)]) or through any other relief provided by law, including administrative and judicial relief, after the best efforts of the parties at resolving a dispute have failed. (c) The employer and labor organization may incorporate additional provisions in the labor peace agreement to protect the District’s proprietary interest. (d) An employer that performs its obligations under a labor peace agreement will be relieved of further obligation to abide by the procedures in the agreement, if the labor organization engages in adverse economic action such as striking, picketing, or boycotting the employer.  (Apr. 2, 2003, D.C. Law 14-266, § 4, 50 DCR 412.)
DC Code § 32-854 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 32 - Labor|Chapter 8A - Labor Peace Agreements for Hotel Development Projects|§ 32-854. Exceptions

The requirements to enter into a labor peace agreement shall not apply to: (1) An employer employing fewer than the equivalent of 15 full-time or part-time employees at the development project; (2) An employer who is a signatory to a valid and binding collective bargaining agreement or agreements covering the terms and conditions of employment for all of its employees at that development project or who has entered into an agreement or agreements with one or more labor organizations regarding such employees, and the agreement provides at least equal protection from the risks of labor-management conflict as provided by the minimum terms of a labor peace agreement; (3) A development project where the Mayor determines that the risk to the District’s financial or other nonregulatory interests resulting from labor-management conflict is so minimal or speculative as not to warrant concern for the District’s investment or other nonregulatory interests; (4) A development project that receives less than $1 million dollars of the total cost of the project from the District; (5) A residential development project; (6) A multi-tenanted development project that is built on a speculative basis; (7) A development project that receives only conduit bond financing from the District; or (8) A development project involving a historically designated building.  (Apr. 2, 2003, D.C. Law 14-266, § 5, 50 DCR 412; Mar. 2, 2007, D.C. Law 16-191, § 135, 53 DCR 6794.)  Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-191 validated previously made technical corrections in the designations of pars. (1) to (8).