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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Senate Bill S4224
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 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
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2019-S4224 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §191, Lab L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2015-2016:
S4815
2017-2018: S827
2019-S4224 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4224 SPONSOR: ANTONACCI TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to author- izing employers with less than five hundred employees to pay bi-weekly wages PURPOSE: This bill would authorize employers with less than five hundred employ- ees to pay bi-weekly wages. Employers would be required to provide 90 days notice to employees prior to doing so. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 - Amends subdivision 1 of section 191 of the labor law by adding a new paragraph e. Section 2 - Requires 90 day notice to employees. Section 3 - Effective date
2019-S4224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4224 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- 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 authorizing employers with less than five hundred employees to pay bi-weekly wages THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The opening paragraph of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 191 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: The commissioner may authorize an employer which has in the three years preceding the application employed an average of [one thousand] FIVE HUNDRED or more persons in this state or has for one year preceding the application employed an average of [one thousand] FIVE HUNDRED or more persons in this state and has for three years preceding the appli- cation employed an average of three thousand or more persons outside the state to pay less frequently than weekly but not less frequently than semi-monthly if the employer furnishes satisfactory proof to the commis- sioner of its continuing ability to meet its payroll responsibilities. In making this determination the commissioner shall consider the follow- ing: (A) the employer's history meeting its payroll responsibilities in New York state or if no such history in New York state is available, other financial information, as requested by the commissioner, which will assist the commissioner in determining the likelihood of the employer's continuing ability to meet payroll responsibilities; (B) proof of the employer's coverage for workers' compensation and disabili- ty; (C) proof that there are no outstanding warrants of the department of taxation and finance or the department [of labor] against the employ- er for failure to remit state personal income tax withholdings or unem- ployment insurance contributions; and (D) proof that the employer has a computerized record keeping system for payroll which, at a minimum, specifies hours worked, rate of pay, gross wages, deductions and date of EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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