Senator Hoylman Testimony to the New York City Council in Favor of Proposed Amendments to the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act

On November 23, I submitted testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor calling on my City Council colleagues to pass proposed amendments to the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act. The Act has played in important role in protecting the short-term job security of building services workers during commercial property sales since it was passed in 2002, but it must be updated to reflect the evolving landscape of building services work in New York City. I voiced support for changes to the law such as extending its employer requirements to commercial lessees with more than 10,000 square feet of rented space, protecting workers during outsourcing and insourcing transitions, adding additional job titles, removing a salary cap of $25 an hour at which point the law no longer applied, and ending exemptions for buildings in which the City leased more than half of the space.