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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 26-8 Living wages - Workers’ complaints.">
  <section prefix="§" num="26-8" heading="Living wages - Workers’ complaints.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Within 1 year from the date of the incident, any service worker may file a protest in writing with the Wage Commission, objecting to the wages paid for services performed by the service worker on a service contract as being less than the living hourly wage rate for those services.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Retaliation prohibited.">
      <para num="(1)">A service contractor shall not discharge, reduce the compensation of, or otherwise discriminate against any service worker for making a complaint to the Wage Commission, participating in any of its proceedings, or using any civil remedies.</para>
      <para num="(2)">In such a case, the Wage Commission may, pursuant to similar procedures as provided in &lt;cite data-path="|11"&gt;Article 11&lt;/cite&gt;, Subtitle 4 of the Baltimore City Code, as amended, order appropriate restitution and the reinstatement of such employee with back pay to the date of violation.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §26A(d)(5)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 94-442</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-085</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
