Bill Text: NY A09796 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - print number 9796a [A09796 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9796

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing  a  workplace
          readiness week for secondary school students

          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 137-a  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  137-a. Workplace rights document.  Any minor seeking working papers
     4  in order to be employed in the state shall be issued, before or  at  the
     5  time  of  receiving  such  working papers, a document clearly explaining
     6  basic labor rights extended to workers.  Topics covered in such document
     7  shall include, but not be limited to, local,  state,  and  federal  laws
     8  regarding  each of the following issues:  (i) child labor; (ii) wage and
     9  hour protections; (iii) worker safety; (iv) workers'  compensation;  (v)
    10  paid  sick  leave;  (vi) prohibitions against retaliation; and (vii) the
    11  right to organize a union in the workplace.    Such  document  shall  be
    12  produced, and made available, in, the ten most commonly spoken languages
    13  or  any  language  otherwise requested by a minor seeking working papers
    14  and shall express these labor rights in plain terminology, easily under-
    15  stood by a minor. The document shall be in a physical form but shall  be
    16  made available electronically on the department's website.  The New York
    17  state  school of industrial and labor relations at Cornell university is
    18  encouraged to produce, with input from bona fide labor organizations,  a
    19  draft template for the document to be provided to minors seeking working
    20  papers,  including  the translations specified.  The department shall be
    21  responsible for making such documents available to all school  officials
    22  who issue working papers.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14982-01-4