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c.      Copies of all drug and alcohol screenings will be forwarded to the DRPA Bridge
                                 Director for each employee working on DRPA property.  Contractor’s employees
                                 will not be permitted to work on  DRPA premises until after  the submittal and
                                 acceptance by the DRPA.

                  2.     Criminal Background Checks

                         a.      Contractor’s Proposals shall provide a detailed description of the scope, method,
                                 extent, and sources to  be utilized in establishing a criminal background check
                                 process. All Proposers shall state in their Proposals how, and to what degree, their
                                 respective criminal background checks are performed.

                         b.      A Criminal Background Check must be completed for all prospective employees of
                                 the Contractor.

                         c.      Copies of all criminal background checks will be forwarded to the DRPA Bridge
                                 Director for each employee working on DRPA property.  Contractor’s employees
                                 will not be permitted to work on  DRPA premises until after  the submittal and
                                 acceptance by the DRPA.


                  3.     Personnel

                         a.      Contractor is responsible for recruiting,  hiring, and compensating personnel and may
                                 charge a fee to do so.  In the event that qualified applicants apply directly to the
                                 DRPA, the DRPA may, in the appropriate case, refer them to the Contractor but shall
                                 have no responsibility to do so.  There shall be no cost to the DRPA for any qualified
                                 personnel who are hired on a permanent basis.


                         b.      The Contractor is required to furnish all levels of Custodial Services at a per hour
                                 rate of pay.  Contractor is to also provide an overtime rate for all personnel.


                         c.      Proposals must indicate hourly billing rates per Bridge Facility, as well as rates for
                                 additional personnel, if  requested by the  DRPA.   This information shall include
                                 supervisors and regular employees.


                         d.      Contractor shall pay all employees providing services to the DRPA in connection
                                 with the Agreement no less than $12.50  per hour (“Minimum Compensation”).
                                 Beginning on July 1, 2019, and annually thereafter for the term of the Agreement,
                                 the minimum wage shall be increased by $0.50 per year until July 1, 2024, when the
                                 minimum wage reaches $15.00.  Thereafter, the minimum wage rate would be
                                 increased by an annual cost-of-living adjustment using the percentage change in the
                                 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Pennsylvania, New
                                 Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

                         e.      Nothing in the foregoing provision shall be construed to contravene or supersede:


                                 1.)    Any state or federal law or collective bargaining agreement; or

                                 2.)    Any state or local policy requiring a covered employee to be paid more than
                                        the hourly wage set forth in the foregoing provision.


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