Bill Texts: NY A08419 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts the farm laborers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farm laborers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-17 - signed chap.105 [A08419 Detail]

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Introduced2019-06-16HTML/TextLinkView

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