Bill Text: NY S01801 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-27 - referred to labor [S01801 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01801-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1801

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to sick  leave  for  domestic
          workers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 196-b of the labor law,  as  added
     2  by  section 1 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1. Every employer shall be required to provide its employees with sick
     5  leave as follows:
     6    a. [For] Except as provided in paragraph b of  this  subdivision,  for
     7  employers  with  four  or  fewer  employees  in  any calendar year, each
     8  employee shall be provided with up to forty hours of unpaid  sick  leave
     9  in  each calendar year; provided, however, an employer that employs four
    10  or fewer employees in any calendar year and that has  a  net  income  of
    11  greater  than one million dollars in the previous tax year shall provide
    12  each employee with up to forty hours of paid sick leave pursuant to this
    13  section;
    14    b. For employers with between five and ninety-nine  employees  in  any
    15  calendar  year  and  all employers of one or more domestic workers, each
    16  employee shall be provided with up to forty hours of paid sick leave  in
    17  each  calendar year. For purposes of this subdivision, "domestic worker"
    18  shall mean any domestic worker as such term is  defined  in  subdivision
    19  sixteen of section two of this chapter; and
    20    c.  For  employers  with one hundred or more employees in any calendar
    21  year, each employee shall be provided with up to fifty-six hours of paid
    22  sick leave each calendar year.
    23    For purposes of determining the number of employees pursuant  to  this
    24  subdivision,  a  calendar  year  shall mean the twelve-month period from
    25  January first through December thirty-first. For all other  purposes,  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04437-01-3
        S. 1801                             2

     1  calendar  year  shall  either  mean the twelve-month period from January
     2  first through  December  thirty-first,  or  a  regular  and  consecutive
     3  twelve-month period, as determined by an employer.
     4    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.