Bill Text: NY S06726 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides that recovery of wages due to a clerical error by the employer or vendor of the employer is prohibited if such clerical error did not result in an overpayment or other inaccuracy in the amount of wages paid or the time in which wages were dispersed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-28 - referred to labor [S06726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06726-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6726--A
            Cal. No. 169

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 18, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee  on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
          second report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to clarifying that deductions
          not  be  made from employee accounts if such deductions do not consti-
          tute overpayment or are dispersed at an improper time

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  c of subdivision 1 of section 193 of the labor
     2  law, as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    c. are related to recovery of an overpayment of wages where such over-
     5  payment  is due to a mathematical or other clerical error by the employ-
     6  er. In making such recoveries, the  employer  shall  comply  with  regu-
     7  lations   promulgated  by  the  commissioner  for  this  purpose,  which
     8  regulations shall include, but not be limited to, provisions  governing:
     9  the  size  of  overpayments  that  may  be  covered by this section; the
    10  timing, frequency, duration, and method of such recovery; limitations on
    11  the periodic amount of such  recovery;  a  requirement  that  notice  be
    12  provided  to  the employee prior to the commencement of such recovery; a
    13  requirement that the employer implement a procedure  for  disputing  the
    14  amount  of  such  overpayment  or  seeking to delay commencement of such
    15  recovery; the terms and content of such a procedure  and  a  requirement
    16  that notice of the procedure for disputing the overpayment or seeking to
    17  delay commencement of such recovery be provided to the employee prior to
    18  the  commencement  of such recovery. Recovery of wages due to a clerical
    19  error by the employer or any vendor working on behalf of the employer is
    20  prohibited if such clerical error did not result in  an  overpayment  or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13788-02-0

        S. 6726--A                          2

     1  other  inaccuracy in the amount of wages paid or the time in which wages
     2  were dispersed.
     3    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     4  the amendments to paragraph c of subdivision 1 of  section  193  of  the
     5  labor  law  made by section one of this act shall not affect the expira-
     6  tion and repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed  to  expire  and
     7  repeal therewith.
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