S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring all workers to
be provided with a pay stub
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 220 of the labor law is amended
by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
(F) ALL WAGES PAYABLE UNDER THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A
WRITTEN RECEIPT OR STATEMENT, SUCH AS A PAY STUB, DETAILING, AT A MINI-
MUM, THE HOURS AND DAYS WORKED BY SUCH EMPLOYEE, THE JOB CLASSIFICATION
AT WHICH THE EMPLOYEE WAS EMPLOYED, AND THE PREVAILING WAGE RATE AND THE
SUPPLEMENT PAID TO SUCH EMPLOYEE, INCLUDING SUMS WHICH ARE NOT PAID
DIRECTLY TO THE EMPLOYEE AND WHICH ARE EXPENDED FOR SUPPLEMENTS.
S 2. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 231 of the labor law, as added by
chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as follows:
1. Every contractor shall pay a service employee under a contract for
building service work a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the
locality for the craft, trade or occupation of the service employee.
SUCH WAGES SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A WRITTEN RECEIPT OR STATEMENT, SUCH
AS A PAY STUB, DETAILING, AT A MINIMUM, THE HOURS AND DAYS WORKED BY
SUCH EMPLOYEE, THE JOB CLASSIFICATION AT WHICH THE EMPLOYEE IS EMPLOYED,
AND THE PREVAILING WAGE RATE AND THE SUPPLEMENT PAID TO SUCH EMPLOYEE,
INCLUDING SUMS WHICH ARE NOT PAID DIRECTLY TO THE EMPLOYEE AND WHICH ARE
EXPENDED FOR SUPPLEMENTS.
2. The obligation of a contractor to pay prevailing supplements may be
discharged by furnishing any equivalent combinations of fringe benefits
or by making equivalent or differential payments in cash PROVIDED SUCH
BENEFIT IS DISCLOSED ON AN ACCOMPANIED WRITTEN RECEIPT OR STATEMENT AND
under rules and regulations established by the fiscal officer.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.