New York S 3842: Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations

Status: REFERRED TO LABOR (as of 2025-01-30)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 3842

Sponsors: Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Jamaal Bailey, Jessica Ramos, Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., José M. Serrano, Kevin S. Parker, Leroy Comrie, Luis R. Sepúlveda, Patricia Fahy, Roxanne J. Persaud, Shelley Mayer

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S03842 Summary:

BILL NOS03842 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00846

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BAILEY, COMRIE, FAHY, MAYER, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §652, Lab L

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Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations; provides that an employer shall pay an employee for at least 4 hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each day an employee reports for work as instructed but is given less than four hours of work.

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01/30/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3842

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 30, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, ADDABBO, BAILEY, COMRIE, MAYER, PARK-
 ER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO -- 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 providing more predictable
 and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations

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

 1 Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
 3 7. An employer who operates thirty or more establishments nationwide
 4 shall pay an employee:
 5 (a) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each
 6 day on which the employee reports for work under specific instructions
 7 but is given less than four hours of work, except that if the employee's
 8 regularly scheduled shift is less than four hours, such employee shall
 9 be paid for the employee's regularly scheduled hours for that day if
 10 given less than the regularly scheduled hours of work; and
 11 (b) For at least four hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each
 12 day the employee is given specific instructions to contact the employ-
 13 ee's employer, or wait to be contacted by the employer, less than twen-
 14 ty-four hours in advance of the start of the potential work shift to
 15 determine whether the employee must report to work for such shift.
 16 (c) Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to any employer who is
 17 subject to a Hospitality Industry Wage Order promulgated by the depart-
 18 ment, unless the employer is also subject to a Fast Food Wage Order
 19 promulgated by the department, as such terms are defined by 18 NYCRR
 20 Part 146.
 21 § 2. Notwithstanding subdivision 7 of section 652 of the labor law, a
 22 modification of part 142-2.3 of title 12 of the New York state codes,
 23 rules and regulations based on subdivision 7 of such section shall be
 24 made by wage order promulgated by the commissioner of labor without a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03390-01-5

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 1 public hearing, and without reference to a wage board, and shall become
 2 effective sixty days after the effective date of such subdivision.
 3 § 3. If any provision of article 19 of the labor law or the applica-
 4 tion thereof to any person, employer, occupation or circumstance is held
 5 invalid, the remainder of the article and the application of such
 6 provision to other persons, employees, occupations, or circumstances
 7 shall not be affected thereby.
 8 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 9 it shall have become a law.

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