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After PSLM occupied Mass. Hall last year, the University agreed to establish the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), headed by Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, and including 11 faculty members, three unionized Harvard employees, two administrators and four students. HCECP recommended that Harvard’s lowest-paid employees be paid $10.83 to $11.30 per hour...
Explaining the committee’s decision not to recommend a living wage, Katz said that creating this wage floor would encourage subcontractors to merely pay the minimum...
...Katz, however, said he is pleased by the speed with which his committee’s recommendations are currently being implemented. PSLM members had criticized the Mills committee for failing to follow through on the report’s suggestions...
...There is a real culture change,” Katz said last week...
Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 resigns from the Katz Committee after accusing it of having a pro-living wage agenda. The committee, officially known as the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), is charged with investigating the University’s wage and employment polices in the wake of the Mass. Hall takeover last spring...