Bill Text: NY A10009 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-29 - referred to labor [A10009 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10009-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10009

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to reducing the number of
          hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with  at  least  five
          hundred employees

          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  160-a  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  160-a.  Hours  to constitute a week's work.  1. Notwithstanding any
     4  other provision of law to  the  contrary,  a  legal  week's  work  shall
     5  consist  of thirty-two hours for any employer with at least five hundred
     6  employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.
     7    2. No employee compensation shall be reduced due to the  reduction  in
     8  hours considered a legal week's work under this section.
     9    3.  This  section  shall  not  prevent an agreement for overwork at an
    10  increased compensation of at least one  hundred  fifty  percent  of  the
    11  employee's base compensation.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15427-01-2