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A06418 Summary:

BILL NO	A06418
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Lavine
COSPNSR	Ortiz, Blake
MLTSPNSR
Add S171, Lab L
Relates to providing employees of large and retail employers with at least two weeks' notice of their work schedules.

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A06418 Actions:

BILL NO	A06418
03/24/2015	referred to labor
03/25/2015	enacting clause stricken

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A06418 Committee Votes:

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A06418 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6418
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 24, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to providing employees of
          large food and retail employers with at least  two  weeks'  notice  of
          their work schedules
 
          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  171  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  171.  Work  schedule predictability. 1. Employees of large food and
     4  retail employers shall be given at least two weeks' notice of their work
     5  schedules. Less than two weeks' notice of an employee's work schedule by
     6  an employer shall result in additional pay as determined by the  commis-
     7  sioner.
     8    2. Large food and retail employers shall accommodate employee requests
     9  for unpaid time off to attend any required appointments at city or coun-
    10  ty  social  services  districts when applying or maintaining eligibility
    11  for food and basic government assistance needs.
    12    3. Discrimination against an employee of large food and retail employ-
    13  ers based on his or her status as a public benefit recipient is  prohib-
    14  ited.
    15    4.  For  purposes  of this section, a "large" food and retail employer
    16  shall mean an employer in the food or retail industry with  one  hundred
    17  or more employees.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09480-01-5

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