Bill Text: NY A03702 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to employment agencies, including application for license; relates to procedures; relates to granting of licenses and enforcement of provisions relating thereto.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-25 - amended on third reading 3702a [A03702 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03702-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3702--A
                                                                Cal. No. 158
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. MOYA, MOSLEY, CRESPO, PICHARDO, BLAKE, FAHY --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection  --  advanced  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  employment
          agencies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 171 of the  general  business  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12.  "Bona fide order" means a written order from an employer directed
     4  to an employment agency stating that  the  employer  requests  that  the
     5  employment  agency refer one or more job applicants for a specific posi-
     6  tion or positions within a specified and limited application period.  An
     7  employment agency must renew a bona fide order after forty-five days  if
     8  it intends to refer an applicant for the position described in such bona
     9  fide  order,  and  the  employment  agency must specify on the bona fide
    10  order the name of the representative of  the  prospective  employer  who
    11  authorized the renewal and the date on which the renewal was authorized.
    12  The bona fide order shall also include a written statement setting forth
    13  the terms and conditions of employment for the position described in the
    14  order; such written statement shall include, at a minimum, the following
    15  information:
    16    a. the name of the employer, any "doing business as" names used by the
    17  employer,  the physical address of the employer's main office or princi-
    18  pal place of business, and a mailing address if different, the telephone
    19  number of the employer, plus such other information as the  commissioner
    20  deems material and necessary;
    21    b. the place or places of employment;
    22    c. the hours of work per day and number of days per week to be worked;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06774-08-6
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