Assembly Bill A8156

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights

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

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2023-A8156 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §818, Ed L

2023-A8156 - Summary

Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.

2023-A8156 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8156
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing  a  work-
   place readiness week for secondary school students
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as  the  "youth
 workplace readiness act".
   § 2. Legislative findings and intent. It is the intent of the Legisla-
 ture  that New York pupils enter the workforce with a strong understand-
 ing of their rights as workers, as well  as  their  explicit  rights  as
 employed  minors.  It  is further the intent of the Legislature to equip
 pupils with this knowledge to protect them from retaliation and discrim-
 ination, to ensure that these young workers receive all wages and  bene-
 fits  to  which they are entitled, to empower them to refuse unsafe work
 when necessary, and to prepare them to assert their labor rights whenev-
 er these rights are threatened.
   The Legislature hereby finds and declares that young New Yorkers  must
 enter  the workforce having received a thorough education on their right
 to join or organize a union at their workplace. It is further the intent
 of the Legislature that secondary schools present state-approved appren-
 ticeship programs as a path towards a living wage career for all pupils.
   § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 818 to  read
 as follows:
   §  818.  WORKPLACE  READINESS  WEEK.  1.  THE  WEEK  OF EACH YEAR THAT
 INCLUDES MAY FIRST SHALL BE KNOWN AS  "WORKPLACE  READINESS  WEEK".  ALL
 SECONDARY SCHOOLS SHALL ANNUALLY OBSERVE THAT WEEK BY PROVIDING INFORMA-
 TION  TO  STUDENTS  ON THEIR RIGHTS AS WORKERS. THE TOPICS COVERED SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LAWS REGARDING  EACH  OF  THE  FOLLOWING
 ISSUES:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11779-02-3
              

2023-A8156A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §818, Ed L

2023-A8156A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.

2023-A8156A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8156--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Education  in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a work-
   place readiness week for secondary school students
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as the "youth
 workplace readiness act".
   § 2. Legislative findings and intent. It is the intent of the Legisla-
 ture that New York pupils enter the workforce with a strong  understand-
 ing  of  their  rights  as  workers, as well as their explicit rights as
 employed minors. It is further the intent of the  Legislature  to  equip
 pupils with this knowledge to protect them from retaliation and discrim-
 ination,  to ensure that these young workers receive all wages and bene-
 fits to which they are entitled, to empower them to refuse  unsafe  work
 when necessary, and to prepare them to assert their labor rights whenev-
 er these rights are threatened.
   The  Legislature hereby finds and declares that young New Yorkers must
 enter the workforce having received a thorough education on their  right
 to join or organize a union at their workplace. It is further the intent
 of the Legislature that secondary schools present state-approved appren-
 ticeship programs as a path towards a living wage career for all pupils.
   §  3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 818 to read
 as follows:
   § 818. WORKPLACE READINESS  WEEK.  1.  THE  WEEK  OF  EACH  YEAR  THAT
 INCLUDES  MAY  FIRST  SHALL  BE KNOWN AS "WORKPLACE READINESS WEEK". ALL
 SECONDARY SCHOOLS SHALL ANNUALLY OBSERVE THAT WEEK BY PROVIDING INFORMA-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11779-04-4
 A. 8156--A                          2
              

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