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Assembly Bill A6418

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to providing employees of large and retail employers with at least two weeks' notice of their work schedules

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2015-A6418 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง171, Lab L

2015-A6418 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing employees of large and retail employers with at least two weeks' notice of their work schedules.

2015-A6418 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6418

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 24, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to providing employees of
  large food and retail employers with at least  two  weeks'  notice  of
  their work schedules

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

  Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a  new  section  171  to
read as follows:
  S  171.  WORK  SCHEDULE PREDICTABILITY. 1. EMPLOYEES OF LARGE FOOD AND
RETAIL EMPLOYERS SHALL BE GIVEN AT LEAST TWO WEEKS' NOTICE OF THEIR WORK
SCHEDULES. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS' NOTICE OF AN EMPLOYEE'S WORK SCHEDULE BY
AN EMPLOYER SHALL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL PAY AS DETERMINED BY THE  COMMIS-
SIONER.
  2. LARGE FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOYERS SHALL ACCOMMODATE EMPLOYEE REQUESTS
FOR UNPAID TIME OFF TO ATTEND ANY REQUIRED APPOINTMENTS AT CITY OR COUN-
TY  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICTS WHEN APPLYING OR MAINTAINING ELIGIBILITY
FOR FOOD AND BASIC GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE NEEDS.
  3. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF LARGE FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOY-
ERS BASED ON HIS OR HER STATUS AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT RECIPIENT IS  PROHIB-
ITED.
  4.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, A "LARGE" FOOD AND RETAIL EMPLOYER
SHALL MEAN AN EMPLOYER IN THE FOOD OR RETAIL INDUSTRY WITH  ONE  HUNDRED
OR MORE EMPLOYEES.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09480-01-5

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