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Assembly Bill A5448

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes employers to make deductions from an employee's wages if such deduction is authorized by the employee and is for the convenience of the employee

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2011-A5448 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2837
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง193, Lab L

2011-A5448 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes employers to make deductions from an employee's wages if such deduction is authorized by the employee and is for the convenience of the employee.

2011-A5448 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5448

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MORELLE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to authorized deductions from
  wages

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 1 of section 193 of the labor
law, as added by chapter 548 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read  as
follows:
  b. are expressly authorized in writing by the employee and are for the
benefit OR CONVENIENCE of the employee; provided that such authorization
is  kept  on file on the employer's premises. Such authorized deductions
[shall be limited to]  MAY  INCLUDE  payments  for  insurance  premiums,
pension  or  health  and  welfare  benefits, contributions to charitable
organizations, payments for United States bonds, payments  for  dues  or
assessments  to a labor organization, and similar payments for the bene-
fit OR CONVENIENCE of the employee.  NO DEDUCTION FROM THE WAGES  OF  AN
EMPLOYEE  SHALL  BE MADE PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH, UNLESS THE AUTHORI-
ZATION THEREFOR IS MADE KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY BY THE EMPLOYEE, WITH-
OUT ANY UNDUE INFLUENCE OR DURESS BY THE EMPLOYER.
  S 2. 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.
                                                           LBD00452-01-1

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