Bill Text: NY A06418 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing employees of large and retail employers with at least two weeks' notice of their work schedules.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - enacting clause stricken [A06418 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06418-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6418
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 24, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to providing employees of
         large food and retail employers with at least  two  weeks'  notice  of
         their work schedules
         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  171  to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  171.  WORK  SCHEDULE PREDICTABILITY. 1. EMPLOYEES OF LARGE FOOD AND
    4  RETAIL EMPLOYERS SHALL BE GIVEN AT LEAST TWO WEEKS' NOTICE OF THEIR WORK
    5  SCHEDULES. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS' NOTICE OF AN EMPLOYEE'S WORK SCHEDULE BY
    6  AN EMPLOYER SHALL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL PAY AS DETERMINED BY THE  COMMIS-
    7  SIONER.
    8    2. LARGE FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOYERS SHALL ACCOMMODATE EMPLOYEE REQUESTS
    9  FOR UNPAID TIME OFF TO ATTEND ANY REQUIRED APPOINTMENTS AT CITY OR COUN-
   10  TY  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICTS WHEN APPLYING OR MAINTAINING ELIGIBILITY
   11  FOR FOOD AND BASIC GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE NEEDS.
   12    3. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF LARGE FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOY-
   13  ERS BASED ON HIS OR HER STATUS AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT RECIPIENT IS  PROHIB-
   14  ITED.
   15    4.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, A "LARGE" FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOYER
   16  SHALL MEAN AN EMPLOYER IN THE FOOD OR RETAIL INDUSTRY WITH  ONE  HUNDRED
   17  OR MORE EMPLOYEES.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09480-01-5