Exempts an employer that is required by contract to provide services to another entity by means of having one or more of its employees work at the facilities of the other entity for the entire daily work period and that must pay an additional employee to provide substitute services in the absence of the original contracted-for employee from the requirement to provide paid sick leave.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9403
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 19, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing an exception to
an employer's obligation to provide paid sick leave to its employees
for certain businesses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 12, 13 and 14 of section 196-b of the labor
2 law are renumbered subdivisions 13, 14 and 15 and a new subdivision 12
3 is added to read as follows:
4 12. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section to the contrary, an
5 employer that is required by contract to provide services to another
6 entity (i) by means of having one or more of its employees work at the
7 facilities of the other entity for the entire daily work period and (ii)
8 that must pay an additional employee to provide substitute services in
9 the absence of the original contracted-for employee, shall not be
10 required to provide paid sick leave as provided in paragraph b of subdi-
11 vision one of this section. Nothing in this subdivision shall be
12 construed to limit the amount of unpaid sick leave the employer is
13 required to provide pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendments
16 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
17 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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