Limits the number of consecutive hours worked by certain employees of cities of one million or more; provides that employees of cities of one million or more who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement shall not work more than 17 consecutive hours in a work day.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9608
SPONSOR: Pheffer Amato TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to limiting the number of
consecutive hours worked by certain employees of cities of one million
or more
PURPOSE:
The proposed legislation would add a new section of the labor law to
prohibit any political subdivision of the State of New York from requir-
ing an employee to work more than seventeen hours in any given work day
except as provided in an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Adds a new section 168-a to the labor law to prohibit political subdivi-
sions of the State of New York from requiring any employee to work. more
than seventeen hours in any given work day except as provided in an
applicable collective bargaining agreement.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is needed due to the fact that the NYC Department of
Corrections has been assigning employees to work triple shifts without
regard to the health and safety of its employees. The legislation amends
the labor law and is intended to supersede any local laws allowing the
practice. No municipal employee should be mandated to work a triple
shift. In circumstances wherein a triple shift may be to the benefit of
both the employer and the employee, or in the case of a true emergency,
sufficient safeguards must be contractually negotiated.
Currently, existing law allows certain municipalities to force workers
to work in excess of 17 hours a day. This is particularly true in the
case of the New York City Department of Corrections which has forced
Correction Officers to work triple shifts. This practice is permitted
under the NYC Administrative Code in emergency situations but has not
been negotiated in contract and the practice is occurring regardless of
declarations of emergency.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2025-Jones, A.2272
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9608
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to limiting the number of
consecutive hours worked by certain employees of cities of one million
or more
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. Hours of labor of employees of cities of one million or more.
4 1. This section shall apply to all employees subject to a collective
5 bargaining agreement of cities of one million or more.
6 2. No person to whom this section is applicable shall be required to
7 work in excess of seventeen hours in any given work day, except as
8 provided in an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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