STATE OF NEW YORK
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3711
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 increasing the 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 chapter 747 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Statutory. Every employer shall pay to each of its employees for
4 each hour worked a wage of not less than:
5 $4.25 on and after April 1, 1991,
6 $5.15 on and after March 31, 2000,
7 $6.00 on and after January 1, 2005,
8 $6.75 on and after January 1, 2006,
9 $7.15 on and after January 1, 2007,
10 $11.15 on and after January 1, 2014,
11 and on and after January 1, 2015 and on each following January first,
12 the commissioner shall calculate and establish an adjusted minimum wage
13 rate by increasing the then current minimum wage rate by the rate of
14 inflation for the most recent twelve month period available prior to
15 each January first using the consumer price index-all urban consumers,
16 CPI-U, or a successor index as calculated by the United States depart-
17 ment of labor, if such rate of inflation is greater than zero percent,
18 or, if greater, such other wage as may be established by federal law
19 pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206 or its successors or such other wage
20 as may be established in accordance with the provisions of this article.
21 § 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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