Bill Text: NY A10612 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires car wash workers to be paid the minimum wage without allowance for gratuities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - ordered to third reading rules cal.63 [A10612 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10612-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          10612
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 9, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ESPINAL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the payment of the minimum
          wage to car wash workers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  651  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. "Car wash worker" means any employee in a city with  a  population
     4  of  one  million  or more primarily engaged in the washing, vacuuming or
     5  general cleaning of motor vehicles. "Car wash worker" shall not  include
     6  volunteers  engaged  in  the  washing  of cars for fund raising or other
     7  charitable purpose.
     8    § 2. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by adding a new  subdivi-
     9  sion 7 to read as follows:
    10    7.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  this  article relating to the
    11  inclusion of an allowance for gratuities in  the  determination  of  the
    12  minimum  wage,  an  employee  who  is a car wash worker in a city with a
    13  population of one million or more shall receive  the  minimum  wage  set
    14  forth  in  subdivision  one  of  this section with no such allowance for
    15  gratuities.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00689-04-8
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