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Assembly Bill A5744

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the addition or change to certain wage orders which would have the effect of requiring an employer to pay an employee for time not actually worked

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2025-A5744 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §659, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10514
2019-2020: A5449
2021-2022: A7134
2023-2024: A3824

2025-A5744 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the addition or change to certain wage orders which would have the effect of requiring an employer to pay an employee for time not actually worked.

2025-A5744 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5744
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, LEMONDES -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting  the  addition
   or  change  to  certain  wage  orders  which  would have the effect of
   requiring an employer to pay an employee for time not actually worked

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  659  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY NEW
 WAGE ORDER OR REGULATION OR REVISION OF AN EXISTING WAGE ORDER OR  REGU-
 LATION  ISSUED OR ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSIONER ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX SHALL NOT BE VALID IF SUCH WAGE ORDER  OR  REGU-
 LATION WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF REQUIRING AN EMPLOYER TO PAY AN EMPLOYEE
 FOR TIME NOT ACTUALLY WORKED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00155-01-5

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