Assembly Bill A4347

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum wage for employees with disabilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A4347 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3434
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§651 & 655, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11290
2019-2020: A7077, S4018
2021-2022: A3103, S1828

2023-A4347 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.

2023-A4347 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   4347
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. STECK, BURDICK, COLTON, CRUZ, COOK, DeSTEFANO,
   DICKENS, HYNDMAN, JACOBSON,  LUPARDO,  PAULIN,  RIVERA,  SANTABARBARA,
   SEAWRIGHT,  SIMON,  STERN, STIRPE, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in  relation  to  the  minimum  wage  for
   employees with disabilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 5 of  section  651  of
 the labor law, as amended by chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, is amended
 to read as follows:
   "Employee" includes any individual employed or permitted to work by an
 employer  in any occupation, but shall not include any individual who is
 employed or permitted to work: (a) on a casual basis  in  service  as  a
 part  time  baby  sitter in the home of the employer; (b) in a bona fide
 executive, administrative, or professional capacity; (c) as  an  outside
 salesman;  (d)  as  a  driver  engaged  in operating a taxicab; (e) as a
 volunteer, learner or apprentice by a corporation, unincorporated  asso-
 ciation,  community  chest,  fund  or  foundation organized and operated
 exclusively for religious, charitable or educational purposes,  no  part
 of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private share-
 holder or individual; (f) as a member of a religious order, or as a duly
 ordained,  commissioned  or  licensed minister, priest or rabbi, or as a
 sexton, or as a christian science reader; (g) in or for such a religious
 or charitable institution, which work is incidental to or in return  for
 charitable  aid conferred upon such individual and not under any express
 contract of hire; (h) in or for such a religious, educational or  chari-
 table institution if such individual is a student; (i) [in or for such a
 religious, educational or charitable institution if the earning capacity
 of such individual is impaired by age or by physical or mental deficien-
 cy or injury; (j)] in or for a summer camp or conference of such a reli-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05514-01-3
              

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