Assembly Bill A4629

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A4629 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §160-a, amd §232, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10009
2023-2024: A1241

2025-A4629 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.

2025-A4629 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4629
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  reducing  the  number  of
   hours  in  a  work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five
   hundred employees
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 160-a to
 read as follows:
   § 160-A. HOURS TO CONSTITUTE A WEEK'S WORK.   1.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY
 OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A LEGAL WEEK'S WORK SHALL
 CONSIST OF THIRTY-TWO HOURS FOR ANY EMPLOYER WITH AT LEAST FIVE  HUNDRED
 EMPLOYEES WHO ARE NOT PART OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT.
   2.  NO  EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION SHALL BE REDUCED DUE TO THE REDUCTION IN
 HOURS CONSIDERED A LEGAL WEEK'S WORK UNDER THIS SECTION.
   3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT PREVENT AN  AGREEMENT  FOR  OVERWORK  AT  AN
 INCREASED  COMPENSATION  OF  AT  LEAST  ONE HUNDRED FIFTY PERCENT OF THE
 EMPLOYEE'S BASE COMPENSATION.
   § 2.  Section 232 of the labor law, as added by  chapter  777  of  the
 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
   §  232.  Overtime. 1. An employee, employed by a contractor, who works
 more than eight hours in any one day or more than  forty  hours  in  any
 workweek  shall  be paid wages for such overtime at a rate not less than
 one-and-one-half times [his] THEIR prevailing basic cash hourly rate.
   2. AN EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYED BY A CONTRACTOR WITH AT  LEAST  FIVE  HUNDRED
 EMPLOYEES  WHO  ARE  NOT  PART OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, WHO
 WORKS MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS IN ANY ONE DAY OR MORE THAN THIRTY-TWO HOURS
 IN ANY WORKWEEK SHALL BE PAID WAGES FOR SUCH OVERTIME AT A RATE NOT LESS
 THAN ONE-AND-ONE-HALF TIMES THEIR PREVAILING BASIC CASH HOURLY RATE.  NO
 EMPLOYEE  COMPENSATION  SHALL  BE  REDUCED DUE TO THE REDUCTION IN HOURS
 CONSIDERED A LEGAL WEEK'S WORK UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION. THIS  SUBDIVISION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06530-01-5

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