Bill Text: NY S07629 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or one hundred percent of the federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, that may be paid to a youth who has no prior job experience; provides that no youth may be paid a training wage for more than one hundred eighty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07629 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07629-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7629
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  establishing  a  training
          wage
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  Training wage. (a) A training wage equal to eighty-five percent of
     4  the state minimum wage or one hundred percent  of  the  federal  minimum
     5  wage,  whichever  is  less,  may be paid to a youth who has no prior job
     6  experience.
     7    (b) Any youth who receives a training wage pursuant to  paragraph  (a)
     8  of  this  subdivision  and who did not work more than one hundred eighty
     9  days in the preceding calendar year, shall receive,  at  a  minimum,  an
    10  annual  increase in wages equal to twenty-five percent of the difference
    11  between the training wage pursuant to paragraph (a) of this  subdivision
    12  and the state minimum wage until such youth reaches the age of eighteen.
    13    (c)  For the purpose of this subdivision, youth is defined as a person
    14  who has not yet reached the age of eighteen, and prior job experience is
    15  defined as employment where an employee would have been accounted for on
    16  an employer's payroll records. No youth will be paid a training wage for
    17  more than one hundred eighty  days.  Employers  are  limited  to  twenty
    18  percent  of  their  workforce, or no more than six employees receiving a
    19  training wage at any one particular location.  At no time will  a  youth
    20  receiving a training wage be used to displace an employee who is receiv-
    21  ing a wage equal to or greater than the state minimum wage.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03233-01-7