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Philadelphia Paid Sick Leave, DRPA Projects, Human Trafficking Trial Opens

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 02/03/15 11:00 am | updated: 02/03/15 11:00 am

For the third time since 2011, a city council committee will debate a plan that would force local businesses to offer all workers paid sick leave and Mayor Nutter seems to be on board. Before Council's Public Health Committee is a measure that would require local businesses to offer one hour of sick leave for every forty hours an employee works. The sponsor, Councilman-at-large Bill Greenlee, says for a full-time worker that equates to about five paid sick days a year. Sixteen cities and three states currently have paid sick leave ordinances.

The Delaware River Port Authority has been working over the last few years to get out of the economic development business. Today, the agency is just about there, with the books closed on a pair of major projects. A $3 million loan to finance turning the old RCA building in Camden into apartments is now paid off. And a $10 million loan guarantee to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority has been discharged. DRPA CEO John Hanson says a couple of projects at the Chester soccer stadium and down in Salem County are still outstanding, but theyâ€™re minor in scope. The agency has been moving toward involvement solely in projects connected to its 4 bridges and PATCO.

Two brothers are now on trial in Philadelphia, charged with taking part in a family human trafficking operation that lured and smuggled people from the Ukraine into the US and on to Philadelphia. A federal jury has heard opening statements and the start of testimony, which resumes this morning. Prosecutor Michelle Morgan has told the jury that the defendants, Mykhaylo Botsvynyuk and Yaroslav Churuk, were part of a five brother conspiracy. The prosecution says they held victims against their will and forced them to work with threats, beatings, sexual assault, and threats against family back home.

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