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MANHATTAN
Monday, July 17, 2006
10:30 am
Assembly Hearing Room
250 Broadway, Room 1923
New York, New York

LONG ISLAND - CANCELLED
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
10:30am
Suffolk County Legislature Auditorium
William H. Rogers Building
725 Veterans Memorial Highway
Hauppauge, New York

ROCHESTER
Thursday, July 20, 2006
10:30 am
City Hall Council Chambers
30 Church Street, Room 302-A
Rochester, New York

This public hearing will examine the need to establish a manner to regulate the business and trade of day laborers. As it stands, this activity has very little, if any, oversight. Studies have shown that low-wage day or temporary laborers, as a group are particularly vulnerable to abuse of their labor rights; including unpaid wages, failure to pay for all hours worked, minimum wage and overtime violations, and unlawful deduction from pay for meals, transportation, equipment, and other items.

Witnesses will be expected to comment specifically on Assembly bill A.10751, establishing the "Day and Temporary Labor Services Act."

Oral testimony will be by invitation only and limited to 10 minute durations. All testimony will be under oath. Ten copies of any prepared testimony should be submitted at the hearing registration desk. The Committees would appreciate advance receipt of prepared statements. Written testimony will also be accepted and may be sent to the contact persons listed on the reply form.

In preparing the order of witnesses, the Committees will attempt to accommodate individual requests to speak at particular times in view of special circumstances. This request should be made on the reply form or communicated to Committee staff as soon as possible. In the absence of a request, witnesses will be scheduled in the order in which reply forms are postmarked.

In order to further publicize these hearings, please inform interested parties and organizations of the Committees' interest in hearing testimony from all sources.

In order to meet the needs of those who may have a disability, the Assembly, in accordance with its policy of non-discrimination on the basis of disability, as well as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made its facilities and services available to all individuals with disabilities. For individuals with disabilities, accommodations will be provided, upon reasonable request, to afford such individuals access and admission to Assembly facilities and activities.

PUBLIC HEARING REPLY FORM

Persons invited to present testimony at the public hearing on day and temporary labor services, or who wish to submit written testimony only, are requested to complete this reply form as soon as possible and mail it to:

Lindsay Copeland
Legislative Associate
Assembly Committee on Labor
Room 513-Capitol
Albany, New York 12248
Phone: (518) 455-4311
Fax: (518) 455-4128

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