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S02721 Summary:

BILL NOS02721
 
SAME ASSAME AS A04189
 
SPONSORALCANTARA
 
COSPNSRPERALTA, ADDABBO, AVELLA, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, DILAN, GIANARIS, HAMILTON, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, KLEIN, KRUEGER, MAYER, PARKER, PERSAUD, RIVERA, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§701, 161, 160, 220, 511, 564, 651 & 674, add §163-a, Lab L; amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §§3, 51, 120 & 201, add §110-b, Work Comp L
 
Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.
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