Bill Text: NY S02879 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to providing for rest between work shifts; prohibits the scheduling of an employee to work the first ten hours following the end of the previous calendar day's work shift or on-call shift or the first ten hours following the end of a work shift or on-call shift that spanned two calendar days unless an employee consents or volunteers, in which case the employee shall be paid one and one-half times the regular rate of pay.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02879 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02879-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2879
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 providing for rest between
          work shifts
          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 168-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 168-a. Right to rest between work shifts. 1.  An  employer  may  not
     4  schedule  or require an employee to work during the following rest peri-
     5  ods:
     6    a. the first ten hours following the  end  of  the  previous  calendar
     7  day's work shift or on-call shift; or
     8    b.  the  first  ten hours following the end of a work shift or on-call
     9  shift that spanned two calendar days.
    10    2. An employee may request or consent to work during  hours  otherwise
    11  prohibited  under  subdivision  one  of  this section. An employer shall
    12  compensate an employee for each hour or  portion  of  an  hour  that  an
    13  employee  works  during  a  rest  period  at  one and one-half times the
    14  employee's regular rate of pay.
    15    3. This section shall apply only to an employer who is deemed to be  a
    16  person,  corporation, limited liability company, limited liability part-
    17  nership, or association employing five hundred or more full-time employ-
    18  ees nationwide or a proportional number of part-time employees, and  who
    19  provides  services  in  the retail trade sector, or provides hospitality
    20  service, housekeeping or cleaning services, or  accommodation  and  food
    21  services,  as  such  terms are defined under the North American Industry
    22  Classification System, except in the case  of  hospitality  service,  in
    23  which  case such term shall have the same meaning as the definition of a
    24  hotel and motel under the North American Industry Classification System.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01168-01-9

        S. 2879                             2
     1    4. It shall be an unlawful practice for an employer to retaliate or in
     2  any way discriminate against an individual with respect to any  term  or
     3  condition  of  employment  or  threaten  such  action due to an employee
     4  rejecting a request by an employer to  work  during  a  prescribed  rest
     5  period.
     6    5.  Any employer who violates this section shall forfeit to the people
     7  of the state the sum of one thousand dollars for each violation,  to  be
     8  recovered  by  the commissioner in any legal action necessary, and shall
     9  pay to the aggrieved employee damages of an amount equivalent  to  three
    10  times  the  value  of  owed wages for shifts worked in violation of this
    11  section, or at least one hundred dollars for  each  work  day  that  the
    12  violation occurred or continued to occur.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.
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