Bill Text: NY A10191 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10191 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-10-10 - referred to labor [A10191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A10191-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10191
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   October 10, 2014
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rozic) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing more predictable
         and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  652 of the labor law is amended by  adding a new
    2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7. AN EMPLOYER SHALL PAY AN EMPLOYEE:
    4    (A) FOR AT LEAST FOUR HOURS AT THE BASIC MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE FOR  EACH
    5  DAY  ON  WHICH THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS FOR WORK UNDER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
    6  BUT IS GIVEN LESS THAN FOUR HOURS OF WORK, EXCEPT THAT IF THE EMPLOYEE'S
    7  REGULARLY SCHEDULED SHIFT IS LESS THAN FOUR HOURS, SUCH  EMPLOYEE  SHALL
    8  BE  PAID  FOR  THE  EMPLOYEE'S REGULARLY SCHEDULED HOURS FOR THAT DAY IF
    9  GIVEN LESS THAN THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED HOURS OF WORK; AND
   10    (B) FOR AT LEAST FOUR HOURS AT THE BASIC MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE FOR  EACH
   11  DAY  THE  EMPLOYEE IS GIVEN SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTACT THE EMPLOY-
   12  EE'S EMPLOYER, OR WAIT TO BE CONTACTED BY THE EMPLOYER, LESS THAN  TWEN-
   13  TY-FOUR  HOURS  IN  ADVANCE  OF THE START OF THE POTENTIAL WORK SHIFT TO
   14  DETERMINE WHETHER THE EMPLOYEE MUST REPORT TO WORK FOR SUCH SHIFT.
   15    S 2. Notwithstanding subdivision 7 of section 652 of the labor law,  a
   16  modification  of  part  142-2.3 of title 12 of the New York state codes,
   17  rules and regulations pursuant to subdivision 7 of such section shall be
   18  made by wage order promulgated by the commissioner of  labor  without  a
   19  public  hearing, and without reference to a wage board, and shall become
   20  effective sixty days after the effective date of such section.
   21    S 3. If any provision of article 19 of the labor law or  the  applica-
   22  tion thereof to any person, employer, occupation or circumstance is held
   23  invalid,  the  remainder  of  the  article  and  the application of such
   24  provision to other persons,  employees,  occupations,  or  circumstances
   25  shall not be affected thereby.
   26    S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   27  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15783-01-4