Bill Text: NY A06796 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the threshold for applicability of wage payment protections for certain persons employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, from $900 to $1,300 per week.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-30 - substituted by s5572 [A06796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06796-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6796

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the earnings
          threshold for the applicability of certain provisions of law  relating
          to the payment of wages

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 190 of the labor law,  as  amended
     2  by chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     3    7.  "Clerical and other worker" includes all employees not included in
     4  subdivisions four, five and six  of  this  section,  except  any  person
     5  employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capac-
     6  ity  whose  earnings  are in excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred
     7  dollars a week.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 192 of the labor law as amended by chap-
     9  ter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    10    2. This section shall not apply to any person employed in a bona  fide
    11  executive,  administrative,  or professional capacity whose earnings are
    12  in excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred dollars a  week,  nor  to
    13  employees working on a farm not connected with a factory.
    14    §  3.  Subdivision  3  of section 198-c of the labor law as amended by
    15  chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    16    3. This section shall not apply to any person in a  bona  fide  execu-
    17  tive,  administrative,  or  professional  capacity whose earnings are in
    18  excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred dollars a week.
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10062-01-3