Assembly Bill A4555

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that municipalities may impose minimum wage standards that are more favorable to employees than those adopted by the state

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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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2017-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §665 to be §666, add §665, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9036
2015-2016: A6373
2019-2020: A5441

2017-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that municipalities may impose minimum wage standards that are more favorable to employees than those adopted by the state.

2017-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4555
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  authorizing  local  wage
   standards higher than in the state labor law
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 665 of the labor law is renumbered section 666  and
 a new section 665 is added to read as follows:
   §  665.  LOCAL  WAGE STANDARDS. NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER, THE MUNICIPAL
 HOME RULE LAW OR THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW SHALL PROHIBIT  THE  ADOPTION
 OF  ANY  MINIMUM STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY ANY APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE,
 OR LOCAL LAW, POLICY, CONTRACT OR PREFERENCE, OR  BY  A  PUBLIC  BENEFIT
 CORPORATION,  OR  ANY  RULE OR REGULATION ISSUED THEREUNDER, RELATING TO
 WAGES, HOURS, OR OTHER WORKING CONDITIONS, OR THE  ENFORCEMENT  THEREOF,
 WHICH  ARE MORE FAVORABLE TO EMPLOYEES THAN THE MINIMUM STANDARDS APPLI-
 CABLE UNDER THIS ARTICLE. A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR PUBLIC  BENE-
 FIT  CORPORATION  MAY  ADOPT  SUCH  STANDARDS, WHICH SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
 ENFORCEMENT BY ANY MEANS PROVIDED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO
 THOSE  AUTHORIZED  BY  THE COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR PUBLIC BENEFIT
 CORPORATION, AND MAY ALSO BE ENFORCED BY THE COMMISSIONER USING ANY  AND
 ALL  ENFORCEMENT  METHODS  PERMITTED  BY THIS CHAPTER FOR ENFORCEMENT OF
 WAGE STANDARDS AND PAYMENT.
   § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act,  or  the  application
 thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be adjudged by any court of
 competent  jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such judgment
 shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but  shall
 be  confined  in  its  operation to the provision of this act, or in its
 application to the person or  circumstance,  directly  involved  in  the
 controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02750-01-7

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