Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the performance of any function of state government for which a four-day workweek is feasible and beneficial for at least sixty percent of state employees employed in such agency or job in the performance of such function of state government, and to implement a four-day workweek for such state employees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5423
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing a
four-day workweek pilot program for state employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 159-e to read as follows:
3 § 159-e. Four-day workweek pilot program. 1. On or before October
4 first, two thousand twenty-seven, the division of the budget, in cooper-
5 ation with the department, shall identify state agencies or other jobs
6 in the performance of any function of state government for which a four-
7 day workweek is feasible and beneficial for at least sixty percent of
8 state employees employed by such state agency or employed in the
9 performance of such function of state government.
10 2. The division of the budget and the department shall:
11 (a) subject to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, on or before October
12 first, two thousand twenty-nine, complete the implementation of a four-
13 day workweek for state employees employed in the state agencies or in
14 the jobs in the performance of a function of state government identified
15 pursuant to subdivision one of this section; and
16 (b) if such state employees for whom a four-day workweek will be
17 implemented under paragraph (a) of this subdivision are in a bargaining
18 unit represented by an exclusive representative, before implementation:
19 (i) negotiate the transition of such employees in such bargaining unit
20 to a four-day workweek; and
21 (ii) complete a signed agreement with such exclusive representative
22 that establishes the requirements of such four-day workweek for such
23 employees in such bargaining unit.
24 3. An employee who transitions to a four-day workweek pursuant to this
25 section may not, as a direct result of such transition:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) have work hours reduced to less than thirty-six hours of work each
2 week; or
3 (b) receive a reduction in pay or benefits.
4 4. On or before October first, two thousand thirty, the division of
5 the budget and the department shall submit a report to the governor and
6 the legislature on the implementation of a four-day workweek pursuant to
7 this section, which shall include:
8 (a) the status of such implementation;
9 (b) the impact of such implementation on:
10 (i) vacancy rates; and
11 (ii) the budgets of the affected state agencies; and
12 (c) any other relevant information as determined by the division of
13 the budget and the department.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2026.
