Bill Text: NY A01241 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A01241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01241-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1241

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to reducing the number of
          hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with  at  least  five
          hundred employees

          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  to constitute a week's work.  1. Notwithstanding any
     4  other provision of law to  the  contrary,  a  legal  week's  work  shall
     5  consist  of thirty-two hours for any employer with at least five hundred
     6  employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.
     7    2. No employee compensation shall be reduced due to the  reduction  in
     8  hours considered a legal week's work under this section.
     9    3.  This  section  shall  not  prevent an agreement for overwork at an
    10  increased compensation of at least one  hundred  fifty  percent  of  the
    11  employee's base compensation.
    12    §  2.    Section  232 of the labor law, as added by chapter 777 of the
    13  laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    14    § 232. Overtime. 1. An employee, employed by a contractor,  who  works
    15  more  than  eight  hours  in any one day or more than forty hours in any
    16  workweek shall be paid wages for such overtime at a rate not  less  than
    17  one-and-one-half times [his] their prevailing basic cash hourly rate.
    18    2.  An  employee,  employed by a contractor with at least five hundred
    19  employees who are not part of a  collective  bargaining  agreement,  who
    20  works more than eight hours in any one day or more than thirty-two hours
    21  in any workweek shall be paid wages for such overtime at a rate not less
    22  than  one-and-one-half times their prevailing basic cash hourly rate. No
    23  employee compensation shall be reduced due to  the  reduction  in  hours
    24  considered  a legal week's work under this subdivision. This subdivision

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall not prevent an agreement for overtime at an increased compensation
     2  of at least one hundred fifty percent of  the  employee's  base  compen-
     3  sation.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.