Bill Sponsors: NY S02837 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly
Bill Title: Enacts the farmworkers 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 farmworkers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02837 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02837 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
