Bill Text: NY A04260 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits mandatory overtime for certain members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, the New York state and local police and fire retirement system and the New York state teachers' retirement system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A04260 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04260-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4260
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  mandatory
          overtime for certain persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  160-a  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  160-a.  Prohibition of mandatory overtime.  1. For purposes of this
     4  section, the term "mandatory overtime" shall mean the period of time  an
     5  employee  is  required  to work in excess of his or her regularly estab-
     6  lished hours of employment, and for which such employee faces  discipli-
     7  nary  action  or termination for his or her refusal to work in excess of
     8  such hours.
     9    2. No employer shall require an employee, who first becomes  a  member
    10  of  the  New  York state and local employees' retirement system, the New
    11  York state and local police and fire retirement system and the New  York
    12  state  teachers' retirement system on or after April first, two thousand
    13  eleven, to work mandatory overtime if such employee has reached  his  or
    14  her  overtime  ceiling  as defined in subdivision twenty-four of section
    15  five hundred one of the retirement and social security law.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07436-01-9
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