Assembly Bill A1653

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farmworkers

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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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2011-A1653 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2, 161, 564, 674 & 701, add §§163-a, 704-b & 719, Lab L; amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §§51, 120 & 201, add §110-b, Work Comp L

2011-A1653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for a 10 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate

2011-A1653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1653

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 11, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to allowing farm workers  one
  day  of  rest  each  week,  and  including  farm  laborers  within the
  provisions pertaining to overtime compensation and unemployment insur-
  ance, and regulating the farm employment of  certain  employees  whose
  earning capacity is affected or impaired by youth or age, and granting
  collective bargaining rights to certain farm laborers and establishing
  an  advisory  committee  on collective bargaining; to amend the public
  health law, in relation to the application of the sanitary code to all
  farm and food processing labor camps for migrant workers; and to amend
  the workers' compensation law, in relation to the eligibility of  farm
  laborers  for  disability benefits and the provision of claim forms to
  farm laborers injured in the course of employment and in  relation  to
  service as farm laborers

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "Farmwork-
ers Fair Labor Practices Act".
  S 2. Section 2 of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivision
17 to read as follows:
  17.  "FARM LABOR" SHALL INCLUDE ALL SERVICES PERFORMED IN AGRICULTURAL
EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH CULTIVATING THE  SOIL,  OR  IN  CONNECTION
WITH  RAISING  OR  HARVESTING  OF  AGRICULTURAL  COMMODITIES,  INCLUDING
SERVICES PERFORMED ON ORCHARDS, PLANTATIONS, NURSERIES AND  GREENHOUSES,
AND  SHALL  INCLUDE  THE  RAISING,  HATCHING,  SHEARING,  CARING FOR AND
MANAGEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, DAIRY, BEES AND  FUR-BEARING  ANIMALS,
AND  SHALL  INCLUDE THE HARVESTING OR PRODUCTION OF MAPLE SYRUP OR MAPLE
SUGAR, AND SHALL INCLUDE THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF FARM EQUIPMENT
AND IMPROVEMENT OR MAINTENANCE  OF  FARM  WATER  USE  AREAS,  AND  SHALL
INCLUDE THE PLANTING, DRYING, PACKAGING OR OTHER PROCESSING OF ANY AGRI-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03070-01-1
              

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