STATE OF NEW YORK
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6122
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. JORDAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a training
wage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Training wage. In the event that the state minimum wage increases
4 to an amount greater than the federal minimum wage established pursuant
5 to 29 U.S.C. section 206, a training wage equal to eighty percent of the
6 state minimum wage or the federal minimum wage, whichever is greater,
7 may be paid to an individual who is seventeen years old or younger; and
8 further provided, a training wage equal to ninety percent of the state
9 minimum wage or the federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, may be
10 paid to an individual who is at least eighteen years old and no older
11 than twenty-one years old.
12 § 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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