New York S 7515: Establishes the schedules that work act

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S07515 Summary:

BILL NOS07515 

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SPONSORCLEARE

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Add Art 5-A §§180 - 187, Lab L

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Establishes the schedules that work act to provide for a timely, good faith interactive process between employees and employers that includes a discussion of potential schedule changes to meet an employee's needs.

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BILL NOS07515 

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04/21/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7515

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 the schedules that work
 act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new article 5-A to
 2 read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 5-A
 4 SCHEDULES THAT WORK ACT
 5 Section 180. Short title.
 6 181. Definitions.
 7 182. Right to request and receive a flexible, predictable or
 8 stable work schedule.
 9 183. Requirements for reporting time pay, split shift pay, and
 10 advance notice of work schedules for retail, food service
 11 or cleaning employees.
 12 184. Prohibited acts.
 13 185. Civil action.
 14 186. Other legal requirements.
 15 187. Savings clause.
 16 § 180. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 17 the "schedules that work act".
 18 § 181. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
 19 have the following meanings:
 20 1. "Bona fide business reason" means:
 21 (a) the identifiable burden of additional costs to an employer,
 22 including the cost of productivity loss, retraining or hiring employees,
 23 or transferring employees from one facility to another facility;
 24 (b) a significant detrimental effect on the employer's ability to meet
 25 organizational needs or customer demand;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06754-01-5

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 1 (c) a significant inability of the employer, despite best efforts, to
 2 reorganize work among existing (as of the date of the reorganization)
 3 staff;
 4 (d) a significant detrimental effect on business performance;
 5 (e) insufficiency of work during the periods an employee proposes to
 6 work;
 7 (f) the need to balance competing scheduling requests when it is not
 8 possible to grant all such requests without a significant detrimental
 9 effect on the employer's ability to meet organizational needs; or
 10 (g) such other reason as may be specified by the commissioner.
 11 2. "Career-related educational or training program" means an educa-
 12 tional or training program or program of study offered by a public,
 13 private, or nonprofit career and technical education school, institution
 14 of higher education, or other entity that provides academic education,
 15 career and technical education, or training (including remedial educa-
 16 tion or English as a second language, as appropriate), that is a program
 17 that leads to a recognized postsecondary credential and provides career
 18 awareness information.
 19 3. "Caregiver" means an individual with the status of being a signif-
 20 icant provider of:
 21 (a) ongoing care or education, including responsibility for securing
 22 the ongoing care or education, of a child; or
 23 (b) ongoing care, including responsibility for securing the ongoing
 24 care, of:
 25 (i) a person with a serious health condition who is in a family
 26 relationship with the individual; or
 27 (ii) a parent of the individual, who is age sixty-five or older.
 28 4. "Child" means a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild,
 29 a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis to that
 30 child, who is:
 31 (a) under age eighteen; or
 32 (b) age eighteen or older and incapable of self-care because of a
 33 mental or physical disability.
 34 5. "Domestic partner" means the in