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S02721 Summary:
| BILL NO | S02721 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A04189 |
| SPONSOR | ALCANTARA |
| COSPNSR | PERALTA, ADDABBO, AVELLA, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, DILAN, GIANARIS, HAMILTON, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, KLEIN, KRUEGER, MAYER, PARKER, PERSAUD, RIVERA, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §§701, 161, 160, 220, 511, 564, 651 & 674, add §163-a, Lab L; amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §§3, 51, 120 & 201, add §110-b, Work Comp L | |
| Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers. | |