Senate Bill S5217

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring that all workers be provided with a pay stub

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S5217 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2124
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง220 & 231, Lab L

2009-S5217 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring that all workers be provided with a pay stub.

2009-S5217 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5217

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 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.

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