Bill Text: NY S03391 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires farm workers and domestic workers to be given at least 24 hours of consecutive rest like other employees in New York State.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S03391 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03391-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3391 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 6, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 allowing farm workers and domestic workers one day of rest each week The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 161 of the labor law is amended by adding two new 2 subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows: 3 7. Every farmer employing farm laborers shall offer those farm labor- 4 ers twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar 5 week. This requirement shall not apply to the parent, child, spouse or 6 other member of the employer's immediate family. Twenty-four consecutive 7 hours spent at rest because of circumstances, such as weather or crop 8 conditions, shall be deemed to constitute the rest required by this 9 subdivision. No provision of this subdivision shall prohibit a farm 10 laborer from voluntarily refusing the rest required by this subdivision. 11 The term "farm labor" shall include all services performed by an employ- 12 ee on a farm in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection 13 with raising or harvesting of agricultural commodities, including the 14 raising, shearing, caring for and management of livestock, poultry or 15 dairy. 16 8. Every employer employing domestic workers in personal or domestic 17 service in private homes shall offer those employees twenty-four consec- 18 utive hours of rest in each and every calendar week. No provision of 19 this subdivision shall prohibit a domestic worker from voluntarily 20 refusing the rest required by this subdivision. The term "domestic work- 21 er" shall include all services performed by an employee in a private 22 home in connection with child care, cleaning, cooking, driving, garden- 23 ing and personal assistance. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08829-01-9S. 3391 2 1 § 2. Paragraphs b and d of subdivision 2 of section 161 of the labor 2 law, as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 1941, are amended to read 3 as follows: 4 b. Employees in [dairies, creameries,] milk condenseries, milk powder 5 factories, milk sugar factories, milk shipping stations, butter and 6 cheese factories, ice cream manufacturing plants and milk bottling 7 plants, where not more than seven persons are employed; 8 d. Employees whose duties include not more than three hours' work on 9 Sunday in setting sponges in bakeries, [caring for live animals,] main- 10 taining fires, or making necessary repairs to boilers or machinery. 11 § 3. The labor law is amended by adding two new sections 163-a and 12 163-b to read as follows: 13 § 163-a. Hours of labor on farms. Any person or corporation operating 14 a farm employing farm laborers shall offer those farm laborers twenty- 15 four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar week; 16 provided, however, that the farm laborer may voluntarily refuse twenty- 17 four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar week. Any farm 18 laborer who refuses twenty-four consecutive hours of rest shall be 19 compensated at a rate which is at least one and one-half times the work- 20 er's normal wage rate. 21 § 163-b. Hours of labor for domestic work. Any person or corporation 22 employing domestic workers in personal or domestic service in private 23 homes shall offer those employees twenty-four consecutive hours of rest 24 in each and every calendar week; provided, however, that the domestic 25 worker may voluntarily refuse twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in 26 each and every calendar week. Any domestic worker who refuses twenty- 27 four consecutive hours of rest shall be compensated at a rate which is 28 at least one and one-half times the worker's normal wage rate. 29 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
