Relates to the definition of employer for purposes of wage payment provisions; includes municipal corporations, public benefit corporations and public authorities in the definition of "employer".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7097--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to including public employers
in wage payment provisions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 281 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. "Employer" includes any person, corporation, including a municipal
4 corporation or public benefit corporation, public authority, limited
5 liability company, or association employing any individual in any occu-
6 pation, industry, trade, business or service. The term "employer" shall
7 not include a state governmental agency.
8 § 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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