Assembly Bill A4762

2015-2016 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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2015-A4762 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1291
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§160, 161, 220, 511, 564, 651, 674 & 701, add §163-a, Lab L; amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §§3, 51, 120, 201, add §110-b, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1867, S2247
2011-2012: A1652, S964, S1862
2013-2014: A1792, S1743
2017-2018: A1223, S235

2015-A4762 (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 an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate

2015-A4762 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4762

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, SILVER, GOTTFRIED, O'DONNELL, PERRY, COOK,
  COLTON,  JAFFEE, DINOWITZ, GLICK, AUBRY, FAHY, MARKEY, ROZIC -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A.   BRENNAN, CUSICK,  HEVESI,  SIMON,  SOLAGES,
  WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  labor  law,  in relation to granting collective
  bargaining rights to farm laborers and allowing farm workers  one  day
  of  rest  each  week and including farm laborers within the provisions
  pertaining to overtime compensation  and  unemployment  insurance;  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;  to  amend  the workers' compensation law, in relation to the
  eligibility of farm laborers for workers'  compensation  benefits  and
  the provision of claim forms to farm laborers injured in the course of
  employment  and  in relation to service as farm laborers; and to amend
  the labor law, in relation to labor  on  a  farm  and  regulating  the
  employment  of certain employees whose earning capacity is affected or
  impaired by youth or age

  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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 701 of the  labor  law,
as  amended  by  chapter  43  of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as
follows:
  (a) The term "employees" includes but is not restricted to  any  indi-
vidual employed by a labor organization; any individual whose employment
has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor
dispute  or  because  of  any  unfair  labor  practice,  and who has not
obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment;  and
shall  not  be limited to the employees of a particular employer, unless
the article explicitly states otherwise, but shall not include any indi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01894-01-5
              

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