Bill Text: NY A02967 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 2967 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires car wash workers to be paid the minimum wage without allowance for gratuities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [A02967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02967-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2967--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MOYA, HARRIS, MOSLEY, CARROLL, BLAKE, CRESPO,
          RIVERA, JAFFEE, D'URSO, GOTTFRIED,  RICHARDSON,  DE LA ROSA,  BRONSON,
          SKOUFIS,  JEAN-PIERRE  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, GLICK,
          HEVESI, HYNDMAN, NOLAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the payment of the minimum
          wage to car wash workers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 651 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  "Car  wash worker" means any employee in a city with a population
     4  of one million or more primarily engaged in the  washing,  vacuuming  or
     5  general  cleaning of motor vehicles. "Car wash worker" shall not include
     6  volunteers engaged in the washing of cars  for  fund  raising  or  other
     7  charitable purpose.
     8    §  2. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
     9  sion 7 to read as follows:
    10    7. Notwithstanding any provision  of  this  article  relating  to  the
    11  inclusion  of  an  allowance  for gratuities in the determination of the
    12  minimum wage, an employee who is a car wash worker  in  a  city  with  a
    13  population  of  one  million  or more shall receive the minimum wage set
    14  forth in subdivision one of this section  with  no  such  allowance  for
    15  gratuities.
    16    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00689-03-7