Bill Text: NY S00052 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-07 - PRINT NUMBER 52A [S00052 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00052-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          52--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN, KENNEDY, PARKER, PERALTA, PERKINS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing more predictable
          and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by   adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  An  employer who operates thirty or more establishments nationwide
     4  shall pay an employee:
     5    (a) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for  each
     6  day  on  which the employee reports for work under specific instructions
     7  but is given less than four hours of work, except that if the employee's
     8  regularly scheduled shift is less than four hours, such  employee  shall
     9  be  paid  for  the  employee's regularly scheduled hours for that day if
    10  given less than the regularly scheduled hours of work; and
    11    (b) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for  each
    12  day  the  employee is given specific instructions to contact the employ-
    13  ee's employer, or wait to be contacted by the employer, less than  twen-
    14  ty-four  hours  in  advance  of the start of the potential work shift to
    15  determine whether the employee must report to work for such shift.
    16    (c) Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to  any  employer  who  is
    17  subject  to a Hospitality Industry Wage Order promulgated by the depart-
    18  ment, unless the employer is also subject to  a  Fast  Food  Wage  Order
    19  promulgated  by  the  department,  as such terms are defined by 18 NYCRR
    20  Part 146.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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