§ 580.01. Definitions.

(1)

"Awarding authority" means any person that awards or enters into a service contract or subcontract to be performed in the County.

(2)

"Contractor" means any person, including a subcontractor, that enters into a m or in part in the County, provided the contractor more than 14 service employees anywhere in the States.

(3)

"County" means the County of Westchester.

(4)

"Covered location" means a:

(a)

Private school, college, or university;

(b)

Institution, such as a museum, convention center, arena, airport, or performance hall;

(c)

Multi-family residential building or complex with more than a hundred (100) units, except that it shall not include any complex where no individual building has more than six units; or

(d)

Commercial or office building or complex occupying more than 100,000 square feet.

(5)

"Employer" means any person who employs service employees at a covered location.

(6)

"Person" means any individual, proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited liability company, trust, association, or other entity that may employ persons or enter into a service contract.

(7)

"Service contract" means a contract between an awarding authority and a contractor to provide security, janitorial, or building maintenance services at a covered location in the County.

(8)

"Service employee" means an individual employed as:

(a)

A building service employee, including a janitor, security officer, doorperson, building cleaner, janitor, porter, handyperson, superintendent, elevator operator, window cleaner, stationary fireperson, or building engineer who has been regularly assigned to a covered location on a full or part-time basis for at least ninety (90) days immediately preceding any transition in employment subject to this section but does not include:

(i)

A managerial or professional employee;

(ii)

An employee whose regular straight-time hourly wage is more than twenty-five dollars per hour; or

(iii)

An employee who is regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

(9)

"Successor employer" means an employer that:

(a)

Is awarded a service contract to provide, in whole or in part, services that are substantially similar to those provided at any time during the previous 90 days; or

(b)

Has purchased or acquired control of a property located in the County where service employees were employed at any time during the previous 90 days; or

(c)

Terminates a service contract and hires service employees as its direct employees to perform services that are substantially similar within 90 days after a service contract is terminated or cancelled.

( L.L. No. 5-2013, § 1 )