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                                   4996
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BRONSON, GALLAGHER, SHIMSKY, ZINERMAN, TAPIA,
   BURDICK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LEVENBERG, GLICK -- 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 January first through December thirty-first. For all other  purposes,  a
 calendar  year  shall  either  mean the twelve-month period from January
 first through  December  thirty-first,  or  a  regular  and  consecutive
 twelve-month period, as determined by an employer.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.