Directs the commissioner of labor to establish the form and content for contracts for the employment of domestic workers; requires all contracts for such employment to comply with such form and content.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6846
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 22, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a contract
for the employment of domestic workers
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 201-g to
2 read as follows:
3 § 201-g. Domestic worker contracts. 1. The commissioner shall estab-
4 lish the form and content of contracts for the employment of domestic
5 workers. Every such contract shall include:
6 a. a description of the employment and the duties that are expected to
7 be performed in the course of such employment;
8 b. the expected number of hours of work per week;
9 c. provisions for vacation, holiday, personal and sick leave;
10 d. the rate of wages paid for such employment; and
11 e. consent to work overtime.
12 2. No person shall employ any domestic worker unless such person has
13 entered into a written contract, meeting the requirements of subdivision
14 one of this section, with each domestic worker employed.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10617-01-7
