Bill Text: NY A01129 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - enacting clause stricken [A01129 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01129-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1129

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to sick leave for domestic
          workers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 196-b of the labor law, as added
     2  by section 1 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1. Every employer shall be required to provide its employees with sick
     5  leave as follows:
     6    a.  [For]  Except  as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, for
     7  employers with four or  fewer  employees  in  any  calendar  year,  each
     8  employee  shall  be provided with up to forty hours of unpaid sick leave
     9  in each calendar year; provided, however, an employer that employs  four
    10  or  fewer  employees  in  any calendar year and that has a net income of
    11  greater than one million dollars in the previous tax year shall  provide
    12  each employee with up to forty hours of paid sick leave pursuant to this
    13  section;
    14    b.  For  employers  with between five and ninety-nine employees in any
    15  calendar year and all employers of one or more  domestic  workers,  each
    16  employee  shall be provided with up to forty hours of paid sick leave in
    17  each calendar year. For purposes of this subdivision, "domestic  worker"
    18  shall  mean  any  domestic worker as such term is defined in subdivision
    19  sixteen of section two of this chapter; and
    20    c. For employers with one hundred or more employees  in  any  calendar
    21  year, each employee shall be provided with up to fifty-six hours of paid
    22  sick leave each calendar year.
    23    For  purposes  of determining the number of employees pursuant to this
    24  subdivision, a calendar year shall mean  the  twelve-month  period  from
    25  January  first  through December thirty-first. For all other purposes, a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04437-01-3
        A. 1129                             2

     1  calendar year shall either mean the  twelve-month  period  from  January
     2  first  through  December  thirty-first,  or  a  regular  and consecutive
     3  twelve-month period, as determined by an employer.
     4    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.