Bill Text: NY A06527 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to paid sick leave provided by employers with full-time employee equivalents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A06527 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06527-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6527

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to paid sick leave provided
          by employers with full-time employee equivalents

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 196-b of the labor law, as
     2  added by section 1 of part J of chapter 56 of  the  laws  of  2020,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  [Every  employer  shall  be required to provide its employees with
     5  sick leave as follows:]
     6    a. For employers with four or fewer full-time equivalent employees  in
     7  any  calendar  year,  each  employee  shall be provided with up to forty
     8  hours of unpaid sick leave in each calendar year; provided, however,  an
     9  employer  that  employs  four or fewer full-time equivalent employees in
    10  any calendar year and that has a net income of greater than one  million
    11  dollars  in the previous tax year shall provide each employee with up to
    12  forty hours of paid sick leave pursuant to this section[;].
    13    b. For employers [with between five and ninety-nine employees  in  any
    14  calendar year, each employee shall be provided with up to forty hours of
    15  paid sick leave in each calendar year; and
    16    c.  For  employers  with one hundred or more employees in any calendar
    17  year, each employee shall be provided with up to fifty-six hours of paid
    18  sick leave each calendar year] who do not fall under the  provisions  of
    19  paragraph  a  of  this  subdivision,  such employers shall provide their
    20  employees with sick leave at a rate of not less than one hour per  every
    21  thirty  regular  hours worked, as set forth in subdivision three of this
    22  section.
    23    For purposes of determining the number of employees pursuant  to  this
    24  subdivision,  a  calendar  year  shall mean the twelve-month period from
    25  January first through December thirty-first. For all other  purposes,  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03937-01-3
        A. 6527                             2

     1  calendar  year  shall  either  mean the twelve-month period from January
     2  first through  December  thirty-first,  or  a  regular  and  consecutive
     3  twelve-month period, as determined by an employer.
     4    3.  Employees  shall  accrue sick leave at a rate of not less than one
     5  hour per every thirty regular hours worked, beginning at  the  commence-
     6  ment  of  employment or the effective date of this section, whichever is
     7  later, subject to the use and accrual  limitations  set  forth  in  this
     8  section.    For  purposes of this section "regular hours" shall mean the
     9  hours a nonexempt employee may spend doing work for his or her  employer
    10  without being entitled to overtime pay.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.