STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6846 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 22, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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 § 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 § 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. LBD10617-01-7