Bill Text: NY A03956 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of labor to establish the form and content for contracts for the employment of domestic workers; requires all contracts for such employment to comply with such form and content.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to labor [A03956 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03956-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3956
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a contract
         for the employment of domestic workers
         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 201-g to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 201-G. DOMESTIC WORKER CONTRACTS. 1. THE COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTAB-
    4  LISH  THE  FORM  AND CONTENT OF CONTRACTS FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF DOMESTIC
    5  WORKERS. EVERY SUCH CONTRACT SHALL INCLUDE:
    6    A. A DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPLOYMENT AND THE DUTIES THAT ARE EXPECTED TO
    7  BE PERFORMED IN THE COURSE OF SUCH EMPLOYMENT;
    8    B. THE EXPECTED NUMBER OF HOURS OF WORK PER WEEK;
    9    C. PROVISIONS FOR VACATION, HOLIDAY, PERSONAL AND SICK LEAVE;
   10    D. THE RATE OF WAGES PAID FOR SUCH EMPLOYMENT; AND
   11    E. CONSENT TO WORK OVERTIME.
   12    2. NO PERSON SHALL EMPLOY ANY DOMESTIC WORKER UNLESS SUCH  PERSON  HAS
   13  ENTERED INTO A WRITTEN CONTRACT, MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBDIVISION
   14  ONE OF THIS SECTION, WITH EACH DOMESTIC WORKER EMPLOYED.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   16  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04794-01-5