Assembly Bill A1129

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A1129 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1801
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §196-b, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10282, S8995

2023-A1129 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers.

2023-A1129 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1129
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to sick leave for domestic
   workers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 196-b of the labor law, as added
 by section 1 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   1. Every employer shall be required to provide its employees with sick
 leave as follows:
   a.  [For]  EXCEPT  AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH B OF THIS SUBDIVISION, FOR
 employers with four or  fewer  employees  in  any  calendar  year,  each
 employee  shall  be provided with up to forty hours of unpaid sick leave
 in each calendar year; provided, however, an employer that employs  four
 or  fewer  employees  in  any calendar year and that has a net income of
 greater than one million dollars in the previous tax year shall  provide
 each employee with up to forty hours of paid sick leave pursuant to this
 section;
   b.  For  employers  with between five and ninety-nine employees in any
 calendar year AND ALL EMPLOYERS OF ONE OR MORE  DOMESTIC  WORKERS,  each
 employee  shall be provided with up to forty hours of paid sick leave in
 each calendar year. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "DOMESTIC  WORKER"
 SHALL  MEAN  ANY  DOMESTIC WORKER AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 SIXTEEN OF SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER; and
   c. For employers with one hundred or more employees  in  any  calendar
 year, each employee shall be provided with up to fifty-six hours of paid
 sick leave each calendar year.
   For  purposes  of determining the number of employees pursuant to this
 subdivision, a calendar year shall mean  the  twelve-month  period  from
 January  first  through December thirty-first. For all other purposes, a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04437-01-3

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