Bill Text: NY A08625 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to farm worker meal and lodging minimum wage credits.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-23 - print number 8625a [A08625 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08625-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8625--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY September 1, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS, D'URSO, MOSLEY, JENNE, PICHARDO, JONES, RICHARDSON, LAWRENCE, PALUMBO, BLANKENBUSH, STECK, MONTESANO, SANTA- BARBARA, AUBRY, BRINDISI, NIOU, BRABENEC, B. MILLER, HUNTER -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to farm worker meal and lodg- ing minimum wage credits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 673 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Meals, lodging and utilities allowances. Notwithstanding any other 4 provision of law or regulation to the contrary, the following items and 5 their respective values may be considered part of the minimum wage rate, 6 and shall be annually adjusted to reflect an increase in the rate of 7 cost of living, as determined by the cost of living adjustment calcula- 8 tor, if any of the following items are provided to the employee: 9 a. Meals. Employees may be charged $2.95 per meal on or after January 10 first, two thousand eighteen. No allowance for meals shall be consid- 11 ered as part of the minimum wage if a migrant seasonal employee earns 12 less than $440.87 in a two-week period on or after January first, two 13 thousand eighteen, other than by reason of voluntary absence. 14 b. Lodging and utilities. (1) Migrant seasonal employees. No allowance 15 for lodging or utilities shall be considered as part of the minimum wage 16 for a migrant seasonal employee. (2) All other employees. All other 17 employees not provided for in subparagraph one of this paragraph may be 18 charged $32.89 per week on and after January first, two thousand eigh- 19 teen per employee for single occupancy or $21.96 per week on and after EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13305-04-8A. 8625--A 2 1 January first, two thousand eighteen per employee for multiple occupan- 2 cy. When a house or apartment and utilities are furnished by an employer 3 to an employee, a fair and reasonable amount may be allowed for such 4 facilities, which amount shall not exceed the lesser of either the 5 reasonable value of comparable facilities in the locality, or $8.68 a 6 day on and after January first, two thousand eighteen for an individual 7 employee, and $13.89 a day on and after January first, two thousand 8 eighteen when the employee's family resides with the employee. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law.
