Bill Text: NY S00757 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 757 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Enacts the "save New York call center jobs act"; requires prior notice of relocation of call center jobs from New York to a foreign country; directs the commissioner of labor to maintain a list of employers who move call center jobs; prohibits loans or grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00757 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00757-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         757--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, ADDABBO, AVELLA, HASSELL-THOMPSON, PANEPIN-
          TO,  STAVISKY,  VALESKY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Labor  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to enacting the "save New
          York call center jobs act of 2016"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "save New York call center jobs act of 2016".
     3    § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new article 21  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5                                 ARTICLE 21
     6                     SAVE NEW YORK CALL CENTER JOBS ACT
     7  Section 770. Definitions.
     8          771. List of relocated call centers.
     9          772. Grants, guaranteed loans and tax benefits.
    10          773. Procurement contracts.
    11          774. State benefits for workers.
    12          775. No private right of action.
    13    § 770. Definitions. As used in this article:
    14    1.  The term "call center" means a facility or other operation whereby
    15  employees receive telephone calls or other electronic communication  for
    16  the purpose of providing customer assistance or other service.
    17    2.  (a)  The  term  "employer"  means any business entity that employs
    18  fifty or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or fifty or more
    19  employees that in the aggregate work at least fifteen hundred hours  per
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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