Bill Text: NY A09274 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers of retail, food service or cleaning employees to give such employees 7 days' notice of their work schedule and a month's notice of the minimum hours of work; provides a private right of action to employees who are aggrieved by certain violations of such provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-10 - referred to labor [A09274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09274-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9274
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to employee work schedules
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 5 of the labor law is amended by adding a new title
     2  2 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 2
     4                            SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
     5  Section 171. Definitions.
     6          172. Advanced notice requirements.
     7          173. Exchange of shifts.
     8          174. Prohibited acts.
     9          175. Exceptions.
    10          176. Enforcement.
    11    § 171. Definitions. As used in this title:
    12    1.  "Employer"  shall  mean any person, corporation, limited liability
    13  company, limited liability partnership  or  association  employing  five
    14  hundred  or more full-time employees nationwide or a proportional number
    15  of part-time employees, who employs  a  retail  employee,  food  service
    16  employee or cleaning employee.
    17    2.  "Employee" shall mean an individual employed as a retail employee,
    18  food service employee or cleaning employee by an employer.
    19    3. "Retail employee" shall mean any employee primarily engaged in  the
    20  sale  of items at a retail store engaged in the sale of items to consum-
    21  ers.
    22    4. "Food service employee" shall mean any employee  primarily  engaged
    23  in  the  service  of food or beverage to guests, patrons or customers in
    24  the hotel or restaurant industry, including but  not  limited  to,  wait
    25  staff,  bartenders,  captains  and  busing  personnel; and who regularly
    26  receives tips from such guests, patrons or customers.
    27    5. "Cleaning employee" shall mean any employee  primarily  engaged  in
    28  activities involving cleaning in a commercial context at a commercial or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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