Bill Text: NY A02668 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits mandatory overtime for certain members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, the New York state and local police and fire retirement system and the New York state teachers' retirement system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A02668 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02668-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2668 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 20, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting mandatory overtime for certain persons 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 section 160-a to 2 read as follows: 3 § 160-a. Prohibition of mandatory overtime. 1. For purposes of this 4 section, the term "mandatory overtime" shall mean the period of time an 5 employee is required to work in excess of his or her regularly estab- 6 lished hours of employment, and for which such employee faces discipli- 7 nary action or termination for his or her refusal to work in excess of 8 such hours. 9 2. No employer shall require an employee, who first becomes a member 10 of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, the New 11 York state and local police and fire retirement system and the New York 12 state teachers' retirement system on or after April first, two thousand 13 eleven, to work mandatory overtime if such employee has reached his or 14 her overtime ceiling as defined in subdivision twenty-four of section 15 five hundred one of the retirement and social security law. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00398-01-7