Bill Text: NY A10697 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "standing is tiring (sit) act"; requires employers to provide suitable seats to all employees where the nature of such employees' work reasonably permits seated work; prohibits employers from artificially designing a work space to require standing; requires the department of labor to determine whether the nature of work reasonably permits seated work; creates a private right of action for employees whose employer does not provide seats.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-09 - referred to labor [A10697 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10697-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10697 IN ASSEMBLY September 9, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reyes, Kelles, Cruz) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to enacting the "standing is tiring (sit) act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "standing 2 is tiring (sit) act". 3 § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 203-f to read as 4 follows: 5 § 203-f. Employee right to sit. 1. An employer shall be required to 6 provide suitable seats to all employees where the nature of such employ- 7 ees' work reasonably permits seated work. 8 2. An employer shall be prohibited from designing a work space to 9 require standing where such work space could reasonably be designed to 10 permit seated work. 11 3. The department shall promulgate rules and/or regulations for deter- 12 mining whether the nature of an employee's work reasonably permits seat- 13 ed work under subdivision one of this section, based on the totality of 14 the circumstances for each employee, including, but not limited to, 15 whether: 16 (a) an employee's tasks can be performed from a chair; 17 (b) seating an employee would interfere with job performance; and 18 (c) the physical layout of a work space is conducive to seating. 19 4. An employee shall have a private right of action for damages 20 against any employer who fails to provide suitable seating to such 21 employee in violation of subdivision one of this section. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 23 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13544-01-1