STATE OF NEW YORK
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7940
IN SENATE
September 26, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing more predictable
and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations
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 7 to read as follows:
3 7. An employer shall pay an employee:
4 (a) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each
5 day on which the employee reports for work under specific instructions
6 but is given less than four hours of work, except that if the employee's
7 regularly scheduled shift is less than four hours, such employee shall
8 be paid for the employee's regularly scheduled hours for that day if
9 given less than the regularly scheduled hours of work; and
10 (b) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each
11 day the employee is given specific instructions to contact the employ-
12 ee's employer, or wait to be contacted by the employer, less than twen-
13 ty-four hours in advance of the start of the potential work shift to
14 determine whether the employee must report to work for such shift.
15 § 2. Notwithstanding subdivision 7 of section 652 of the labor law, a
16 modification of part 142-2.3 of title 12 of the New York state codes,
17 rules and regulations pursuant to subdivision 7 of such section shall be
18 made by wage order promulgated by the commissioner of labor without a
19 public hearing, and without reference to a wage board, and shall become
20 effective sixty days after the effective date of such section.
21 § 3. If any provision of article 19 of the labor law or the applica-
22 tion thereof to any person, employer, occupation or circumstance is held
23 invalid, the remainder of the article and the application of such
24 provision to other persons, employees, occupations, or circumstances
25 shall not be affected thereby.
26 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
27 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15783-01-4
