Workers Bill of Rights Research and Policy Analysis Services

The vendor is required to provide to conduct a comprehensive and data informed research and policy analysis to evaluate the impacts and feasibility of labor and wage policies within a workers’ bill of rights.
• Clearly define the problems the workers’ bill of rights seeks to address. 
• Use evidence-based and data informed methodologies to assess policy implications. 
• Incorporate academic and peer-reviewed research and lessons learned from other jurisdictions. 
• Analyze city economic environment, workforce demographics, labor sectors, and prevailing wage structures. 
• Evaluate potential impacts on employers of varying size and sector, with a focus on small businesses. 
• Identify potential broader impacts of policy implementation, including both positive and negative effects such as, workforce availability, wage compression effects, employer behavior, business investment, consumer pricing, and overall economic competitiveness. review relevant policy changes from other cities, including implementation strategies and post-adoption outcomes. 
• Develop clear and locally grounded implementation scenarios for policy design and delivery.
- Local economic impact and workforce data analysis
• Analyze workforce demographics, labor market structure, and wage data across sectors. 
• Profile key industries in city, to include but not limited to, healthcare, childcare, government, nonprofit, retail, and hospitality and identify those likely to be most impacted by proposed policies. 
• Assess the impacts specifically to small businesses. 
• Prepare a local economic impact analysis report to evaluate potential outcomes of implementing one or more of the proposed policies on the local economy and workforce.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 03, 2025