Bill Text: NY A00721 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers of motor carriers to provide overtime pay to their employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor [A00721 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00721-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           721
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to overtime pay for employees
          of motor carriers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 160-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 160-a. Hours of labor of employees of motor  carriers.  Every  motor
     4  carrier shall pay to all employees for whom the U.S. Secretary of Trans-
     5  portation  may prescribe maximum hours of work for the safe operation of
     6  vehicles, pursuant to section 31502(b) of the federal Motor Carrier Act,
     7  49 U.S.C. s.31502(b), an overtime rate not less than  one  and  one-half
     8  times  the  worker's hourly wage, for each hour in excess of forty hours
     9  worked in any week, notwithstanding  the  exemption  of  such  employees
    10  pursuant to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act 29 U.S.C. 213(b)(1).
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00055-01-7