Assembly Bill A8058

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain workers have access to paid sick leave

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A8058 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190, Lab L

2025-A8058 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employees have access to paid sick leave unless their employer demonstrates a certain set of conditions for their contract.

2025-A8058 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8058
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring certain  workers
   have access to paid sick leave
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 190 of the labor law,  as  amended
 by chapter 391 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   2. "Employee" means any person employed for hire by an employer in any
 employment,  but  with  respect  to the entirety of this article, except
 sections one hundred ninety-three, one hundred ninety-six-b, one hundred
 ninety-eight, and one hundred  ninety-eight-b,  shall  not  include  any
 person  who  has  entered  into a contract to play baseball at the minor
 league level and who is compensated pursuant to the terms of  a  collec-
 tive  bargaining  agreement that expressly provides for the wages, hours
 of work, and working  conditions  of  employees.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF
 SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED NINETY-SIX-B OF THIS ARTICLE, "EMPLOYEE" MEANS ANY
 PERSON PROVIDING LABOR OR SERVICES TO AN EMPLOYER UNLESS  SUCH  EMPLOYER
 DEMONSTRATES EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS ARE SATISFIED:
   A.  THE  PERSON  IS  FREE FROM THE CONTROL AND DIRECTION OF THE HIRING
 ENTITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THE WORK,  BOTH  UNDER  THE
 CONTRACT FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE WORK AND IN FACT.
   B.  THE  PERSON  PERFORMS WORK THAT IS OUTSIDE THE USUAL COURSE OF THE
 HIRING ENTITY'S BUSINESS.
   C. THE PERSON IS CUSTOMARILY ENGAGED IN AN  INDEPENDENTLY  ESTABLISHED
 TRADE,  OCCUPATION,  OR  BUSINESS OF THE SAME NATURE AS THAT INVOLVED IN
 THE WORK PERFORMED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
 the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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