Senate Bill S2837

2019-2020 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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2019-S2837 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2750
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§701, 161, 160, 220, 511, 564, 651 & 674, add §163-a, Lab L; amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §§3, 51, 120 & 201, add §110-b, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S2721, A4189

2019-S2837 (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

2019-S2837 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2837 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2837
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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".
   §  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-
 vidual  employed  by  his parent or spouse or in the domestic service of
 and directly employed, controlled and paid by any person  in  his  home,

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

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