Bill Text: NY A05607 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-07 - referred to labor [A05607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05607-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5607

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 18, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law and the  education  law,  in  relation  to
          creating  a workplace rights document to be provided to minors seeking
          employment

          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 137-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 137-a. Workplace rights document.  The department shall develop, and
     4  make available to school officials, a workplace rights  document  to  be
     5  provided  to minors seeking an employment certificate or permit pursuant
     6  to article sixty-five of the education law. Such document shall  clearly
     7  explain  basic  labor rights extended to workers, and express such labor
     8  rights in plain terminology, easily understood by a minor. The workplace
     9  rights document shall be made available on the department's website  and
    10  translated  by  the department in the ten most commonly spoken languages
    11  in the state or any language otherwise requested by  the  minor  seeking
    12  the  employment  certificate or permit. Topics covered in such workplace
    13  rights document shall include, but not be limited to, local, state,  and
    14  federal  laws  regarding each of the following issues:  (i) child labor;
    15  (ii) wage and hour  protections;  (iii)  worker  safety;  (iv)  workers'
    16  compensation;  (v)  paid  sick  leave; (vi) prohibitions against retali-
    17  ation; and (vii) the right to organize a union in the  workplace.    Any
    18  minor  seeking  an  employment  certificate  or  permit shall be issued,
    19  before or at the  time  of  receiving  such  employment  certificate  or
    20  permit, the workplace rights document. The document shall be produced to
    21  a minor in physical form.
    22    §  2.  Section  3215-a of the education law is amended by adding a new
    23  subdivision 4 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4. Employment certificates or permits issued to students shall include
     2  the workplace rights document pursuant to section  one  hundred  thirty-
     3  seven-a of the labor law.
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.