Bills Pending New York Senate Labor Committee

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NYS04925Intro
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Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program.
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2025-02-14
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NYS04912Intro
25%
Enacts "the construction reporting pay act"; provides that each laborer, worker or mechanic in the employ of a contractor who by request or permission of an employer reports for work on any day shall be paid no less than four hours at the prevailing ...
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2025-02-14
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NYS04926Intro
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Relates to contracted network pharmacy use.
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2025-02-14
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NYS04973Intro
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Removes labor market attachment requirements for cases of permanent partial disability.
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2025-02-14
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NYS04863Intro
25%
Establishes the COVID-19 recovery local employment tax credit program to provide tax incentives to employers for employing local employees in full-time or part-time positions in the two years following the conclusion of the state disaster emergency d...
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2025-02-13
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NYS04832Intro
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Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.
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2025-02-13
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NYS04816Intro
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Includes Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases as occupational diseases for purposes of workers' compensation; clarifies that disability includes disability caused by Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases; requires insurance coverage of long...
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2025-02-13
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NYS04826Intro
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Relates to appeals made by employers or insurance carriers for modification, rescission or review of an award or decision.
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2025-02-13
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NYS04881Intro
25%
Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements with pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.
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2025-02-13
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NYS04756Intro
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Enacts the "Velmanette Montgomery YouthBuild act"; sets program requirements; authorizes grants to eligible YouthBuild participants; establishes application requirements.
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2025-02-12
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NYS04760Intro
25%
Relates to collective bargaining rights for college athletes; authorizes the public employment relations board to exercise jurisdiction over institutions of higher education and college student athlete employees of such institutions in relation to al...
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2025-02-12
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NYS04641Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants; authorizes covered individuals to bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any employer or persons alleged to have violated such prohibition.
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2025-02-11
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NYS04681Intro
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Relates to the interest assessment surcharge.
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2025-02-11
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NYS04644Intro
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Allows employees that refuse a coronavirus vaccine to be eligible for unemployment insurance.
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2025-02-10
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NYS04612Intro
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Includes coverage of treatment rendered by a massage therapist.
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2025-02-10
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NYS04593Intro
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Directs the New York State Department of Labor to establish a voluntary training and certification program for employers entitled the Neurodiversity Training Pledge.
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2025-02-10
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NYS04509Intro
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Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks.
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2025-02-06
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NYS04519Intro
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Relates to awards to employees who prevail in actions on kick-back claims; provides that such employees shall be entitled to the full amount of what was received, liquidated damages, attorney's fees and prejudgment interest.
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2025-02-06
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NYS04518Intro
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Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence or an attempt to improperly influence.
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2025-02-06
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NYS04514Intro
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Requires the commissioner of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state.
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2025-02-06
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NYS04516Intro
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Provides that recovery of wages due to a clerical error by the employer or vendor of the employer is prohibited if such clerical error did not result in an overpayment or other inaccuracy in the amount of wages paid or the time in which wages were di...
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2025-02-06
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NYS04515Intro
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Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers.
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2025-02-06
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NYS04473Intro
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Clarifies that the statutory damages available for certain wage violations are not punitive in nature and are designed to be liquidated damages rather than penalties or to compensate workers for the employer's failure to prevent wage theft and for th...
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2025-02-05
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NYS04467Intro
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Provides for the enrollment of a surviving spouse, a surviving domestic partner, a dependent child or children, or any other person entitled to a death benefit in direct deposit for compensation payments.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04479Intro
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Requires the workers' compensation board and the department of labor to publish lists of debarred entities as open data; directs the office of general services to maintain and publish such lists on their website.
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2025-02-05
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NYS00028Intro
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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 or...
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2025-02-05
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NYS04468Intro
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Expands the definition of "family leave" to include persons recovering from the unintended intrauterine death of a fetus that occurs after the clinical estimate of the twentieth week of gestation.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04465Intro
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Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04476Intro
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Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two...
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2025-02-05
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NYS04463Intro
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Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04478Intro
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Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04477Intro
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Requires employers to report certain employees' wages for the purposes of unemployment benefits; relates to the payment of unemployment benefits, and employer penalties for non-compliance.
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2025-02-05
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NYS04300Intro
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Forbids employers from terminating an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker responding to an emergency service call.
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2025-02-04
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NYS04376Intro
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Provides up to four weeks of paid family leave in the event of a stillbirth and up to one week of paid family leave in the event of a miscarriage.
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2025-02-04
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NYS04304Intro
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Enacts the "paid sick leave act"; requires all employers to provide paid sick leave to employees.
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2025-02-04
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NYS04394Intro
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Establishes criteria for the use of automated employment decision tools; provides for enforcement for violations of such criteria.
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2025-02-04
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NYS04424Intro
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Enacts the "anti-waiver of employment rights act" to invalidate any express or implied contractual provision waiving or otherwise limiting any employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claim.
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2025-02-04
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NYS04287Intro
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Enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act"; requires that employers that have relocated out of New York State continue to contribute to the unemployment insurance fund when former employees of the employer are receiving benefits for two quarte...
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2025-02-03
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NYS04299Intro
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Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program.
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2025-02-03
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NYS04140Intro
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Enacts the "protection in the workplace act"; provides that injuries to employees as a result of the commission of a sexual offense shall entitle such employee to all rights and benefits available pursuant to the workers' compensation law and, in add...
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2025-02-03
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NYS04144Intro
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Requires state agencies to provide labor organizations with certified payroll records of the contractors hired to perform public work by such agency.
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2025-02-03
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NYS03952Intro
25%
Establishes local wage enforcement authority in the city of New York; authorizes the city of New York to establish a minimum wage that is higher than the statewide minimum wage.
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2025-01-31
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NYS03973Intro
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Relates to project labor agreement feasibility studies and apprenticeship agreements; provides the study shall look to see if there will be a negative impact on opportunities for minority, women or service-disabled veteran owned businesses; provides ...
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2025-01-31
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NYS04047Intro
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Requires employers to provide notice of insurance requirements for injured employees to such employees in their native language; requires employers to provide notice of how to file a claim to injured workers; establishes a penalty for failure to comp...
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2025-01-31
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NYS03956Intro
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Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring ...
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2025-01-31
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NYS04097Intro
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Provides for unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for twenty days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines "address on-going domestic v...
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2025-01-31
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NYS04052Intro
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Includes Stewart International Airport in the definition of covered airport location for the purposes of minimum wage rates.
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2025-01-31
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NYS03954Intro
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Classifies worksite employees of professional employers as employees of the professional employer for certain insurance purposes.
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2025-01-31
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NYS03955Intro
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Relates to notification in the case of a change to the workers' compensation claims representative.
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2025-01-31
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NYS04070Intro
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Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes.
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2025-01-31
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