Q&A
HPD's limited role in wage negotiations between contractors and workers
0:38:03
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Council Member De La Rosa inquires about HPD's involvement in negotiating wage structures with developers. Lucy Joffe explains that HPD typically does not play a direct role in these negotiations between subcontractors and workers.
- HPD's lack of regulatory authority over private employment relationships is highlighted.
- The assumption that state authorities oversee these negotiations is discussed.
- HPD's commitment to referring potential violations to appropriate enforcement authorities is emphasized.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:38:03
So when you're in the process of negotiating sort of what that wage structure looks like, are these questions that you're asking from developers and tracking sort of where who what the wage amounts to if it's a separate payment for workers, for health insurance costs, and all of that.
Lucy Joffe
0:38:20
Typically, HP doesn't play a role directly in those negotiations between a subcontractor, for example, and their workers.
0:38:29
That is something that we are not at the table for.
0:38:33
It's a private relationship that we actually don't have regulatory authority over.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:38:37
And is that because the you will the assumption is that the state is going to have sort of regulatory eyes on on what that negotiation looks like.
Lucy Joffe
0:38:49
Should those should any of those payment relationships?
0:38:53
I don't wanna, you know, assume if it's a contract etcetera.
0:38:56
But should those payment relationships violate state law or federal law, then absolutely.
0:39:01
And if we become aware of it Right.
0:39:03
Through our our work on the project, any of the monitoring that happens, we would absolutely refer them to the to the enforcement authorities and work together to these necessary to try to rectify anything that happens on those projects?
