STATE OF NEW YORK
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1047
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 authorizing the city of
New York to implement a minimum wage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 652 of the labor law, as amended
2 by section 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended and
3 a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
4 1. Statutory. Every employer, except in the city of New York, shall
5 pay to each of its employees for each hour worked a wage of not less
6 than:
7 $4.25 on and after April 1, 1991,
8 $5.15 on and after March 31, 2000,
9 $6.00 on and after January 1, 2005,
10 $6.75 on and after January 1, 2006,
11 $7.15 on and after January 1, 2007,
12 $8.00 on and after December 31, 2013,
13 $8.75 on and after December 31, 2014,
14 $9.00 on and after December 31, 2015, or, if greater, such other wage
15 as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206
16 or its successors
17 or such other wage as may be established in accordance with the
18 provisions of this article.
19 1-a. City of New York. Every employer in the city of New York shall
20 pay to each of its employees for each hour worked a wage of not less
21 than the minimum wage. The city council shall implement a minimum wage
22 for solely the city of New York which shall be no less than the minimum
23 wage pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
25 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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