Bill Text: NY S05958 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the period of time for taking the noon day meal for employees in restaurants and other food service establishments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05958 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05958-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5958
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
October 16, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to expanding the period of
time for taking the noon day meal for employees in restaurants and
other food service establishments
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 162 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-A. FOR EVERY PERSON EMPLOYED IN OR BY A RESTAURANT OR FOOD SERVICE
4 ESTABLISHMENT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER, THE NOON DAY
5 MEAL PERIOD IS RECOGNIZED AS EXTENDING FROM TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
6 UNTIL THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. AN EMPLOYEE IN SUCH ESTABLISHMENT
7 WHO WORKS A SHIFT OF MORE THAN SIX HOURS WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE NOON DAY
8 MEAL PERIOD IS ENTITLED TO AT LEAST THIRTY MINUTES OFF WITHIN THAT PERI-
9 OD FOR THE MEAL PERIOD.
10 NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION TO THE CONTRARY,
11 THE NOON DAY MEAL PERIOD MAY BE ESTABLISHED THROUGH THE COLLECTIVE
12 BARGAINING PROCESS.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11939-01-3
