Amend House File 525 as follows:
   1.  Page 3, line 14, after<applicable.> by inserting <In considering this comparison, for purposes of evaluating parity, the arbitrator shall include only employers providing the equivalent of a living wage with benefits for all employees. For the purposes of this section,“living wage with benefits” means compensation from an employer to an employee sufficient to allow a family of two adults and two children to pay housing costs equaling no more than thirty percent of the employee’s wage, and to pay for the family’s health care, public education for the children through four years of college, food, clothing, an annual family vacation, contributions to church and charity of ten percent of the employee’s wages, and a pension benefit adequate for both adults to retire at the social security retirement age. If the employee cannot provide for the employee’s family as provided in this paragraph without resorting to welfare or other public assistance programs, compensation to the employee shall not be considered a living wage plus benefits.>

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ISENHART of Dubuque

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KRESSIG of Black Hawk