STATE OF NEW YORK
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5629
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee 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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