Syracuse’s Living Wage ordinance, meant to help the wages paid to workers for companies that contract with the city keep up with rising costs of living, has not been properly enforced for about a decade, a new report from City Auditor Alex Marion found.
Marion’s report, the first audit or review of the local ordinance since 2016, found that the many carve outs and exceptions that the law makes diminishes the number of workers it can apply to.
The advisory board meant to hear workers’ complaints who claim not being paid a fair living wage has also not met for the past decade, meaning that the city does not have a public process by which it hears cases of non compliance with the ordinance. The city, Marion wrote, has also failed to establish proper procedures by which to track compliance…