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Apr 21, 2014 |
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Senate Bill S7034
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 10th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor 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
2013-S7034 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §652, Lab L
- Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
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S3257
2013-S7034 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7034 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to the minimum wage for food service workers receiving tips PURPOSE: To increase the New York State minimum wage for food service workers receiving tips to equal seventy percent (70%) of the state's standard minimum wage. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: § 1. Subdivision 4 of section 652 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 747 of the laws of 2004 is amended to raise the New York State minimum for food service workers receiving tips to equal seventy percent (70%) of the state's standard minimum wage. § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. JUSTIFICATION: Recently the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, declared that the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. A minimum wage that does not keep up with inflation forces employees
2013-S7034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7034 I N S E N A T E April 21, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 minimum wage for food service workers receiving tips THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 652 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 747 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 4. Notwithstanding subdivisions one and two of this section, the wage for an employee who is a food service worker receiving tips shall be a cash wage of at least three dollars and thirty cents per hour on or after March thirty-first, two thousand; three dollars and eighty-five cents on or after January first, two thousand five; at least four dollars and thirty-five cents on or after January first, two thousand six; [and] at least four dollars and sixty cents on or after January first, two thousand seven[, provided that the tips of such an employee, when added to such cash wage, are equal to or exceed]; AND AT LEAST SEVENTY PERCENT OF the minimum wage in effect pursuant to subdivision one of this section [and provided further that no other cash wage is established pursuant to section six hundred fifty-three of this article] OR SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE MINIMUM WAGE IN EFFECT IN THE APPLICABLE MUNI- CIPALITY ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN. In the event the cash wage payable under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 United States Code Sec. 203 (m), as amended), is increased after enactment of this subdivision, the cash wage payable under this subdivision shall automatically be increased by the proportionate increase in the cash wage payable under such federal law, and will be immediately enforceable as the cash wage payable to food service workers under this article. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13658-01-4
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