Assembly Actions -
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May 25, 2010 |
held for consideration in labor |
Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to labor |
Apr 06, 2009 |
referred to labor |
Assembly Bill A7400
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
COOK
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A7400 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Labor
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง198, Lab L
2009-A7400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7400 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 6, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, COLTON, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, PHEFFER, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the amount of liquidated damages for failure to pay wages as legally required THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 198 of the labor law, as added by chapter 310 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 1-a. In any action instituted upon a wage claim by an employee or the commissioner in which the employee prevails, the court shall allow such employee reasonable attorney's fees and, upon a finding that the employ- er's failure to pay the wage required by this article: (I) was willful, (II) PERSISTED FOR MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS, OR (III) INVOLVED A FAILURE TO PAY THE WAGES OF TEN OR MORE EMPLOYEES, an additional amount as liqui- dated damages equal to [twenty-five percent of] TWICE the total amount of the wages found to be due. 4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, AN ACTION TO RECOVER UPON A LIABILITY IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE MAY BE BROUGHT AS A CLASS ACTION. S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01280-01-9
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