Bill Text: NY A06877 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6877

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits an employee to commence a private action against an employer for violation of frequency of wage payment violations; directs increased penalties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A06877 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06877-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6877

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to remedies for payment of
          wage violations

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  198  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
     3    1-c. An employee may bring a private action for a violation of section
     4  one hundred ninety-one of this article. If the employee prevails  he  or
     5  she  shall  be  awarded  one thousand dollars for a first violation, two
     6  thousand dollars for a second violation and three thousand dollars for a
     7  third or subsequent violation.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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