STATE OF NEW YORK
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6948
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the number of hours which
constitute a work week
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 160-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 160-a. Hours to constitute a week's work. 1. Unless otherwise
4 provided by law, for all employees, except those engaged in farm work
5 and those affected by subdivision four of section two hundred twenty of
6 this chapter, thirty-two hours shall constitute a legal week's work.
7 2. This section shall not prevent an agreement for overwork at an
8 increased compensation, except upon work by or for the state or a munic-
9 ipal corporation, or by contractors or subcontractors therewith, and
10 except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
11 § 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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