Bill Text: NY A06122 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a training wage for persons under twenty-one years of age in the event the state minimum wage is greater than the federal minimum wage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-15 - referred to labor [A06122 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06122-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6122 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 15, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JORDAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a training wage 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 6 to read as follows: 3 6. TRAINING WAGE. IN THE EVENT THAT THE STATE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES 4 TO AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT 5 TO 29 U.S.C. SECTION 206, A TRAINING WAGE EQUAL TO EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE 6 STATE MINIMUM WAGE OR THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, 7 MAY BE PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER; AND 8 FURTHER PROVIDED, A TRAINING WAGE EQUAL TO NINETY PERCENT OF THE STATE 9 MINIMUM WAGE OR THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, MAY BE 10 PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS AT LEAST EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD AND NO OLDER 11 THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09349-01-3