STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD01678-03-6