Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Requires farm workers and domestic workers to be given at least 24 hours of consecutive rest like other employees in New York State. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Requires employers of motor carriers to provide overtime pay to their employees. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Provides that an offer of employment or assignment made to a part-time faculty employee by a higher education institution which is contingent on enrollment, funding, or programmatic changes shall not constitute reasonable assurance of continued employment. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Enacts the "construction safety course accountability act"; authorizes the department of labor to license any entity or organization in the state of New York which offers an Occupational Safety and Health Administration construction safety and health course; requires any person or entity which issues an Occupational Safety and Health Administration construction and safety health course card in New York state to submit a copy to the department of labor, with the cardholder's name and address and the date of issuance. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Relates to the duration of rights of benefits. /
Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: LABOR

Establishes the New York family leave act providing for leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Relates to restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses in the office of children and family services. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Broadens scope of prevailing wage requirements for service employees and establishes criminal penalties for violations. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Broadens scope of prevailing wage requirements for service employees and establishes criminal penalties for violations. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Expands retraining opportunities to unemployed citizens of the state. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Relates to payment of independent contractors and authorizes the department of labor to investigate complaints, make claims for compensation, assess liquid damages, civil penalties and criminal penalties, and authorizes the award of attorney fees and liquidated damages. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: LABOR

Relates to payment of independent contractors and authorizes the department of labor to investigate complaints, make claims for compensation, assess liquid damages, civil penalties and criminal penalties, and authorizes the award of attorney fees and liquidated damages. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: LABOR

Requires farm labor contractors to provide certified copies of payroll records to the commissioner of labor. /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: LABOR

Makes the provisions relating to leave for organ or bone marrow donation granted to state employees retroactive to August 29, 2001. /
Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: LABOR

Directs state insurance fund to offer title insurance and authorizes superintendent of insurance to implement such program. /
Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: LABOR

Relates to the refusal to work and the disqualification of benefits. /
Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: LABOR

Requires that all persons working on contracts valued at $250,000 or more receive at least ten hours of OSHA training prior to their performance of work. /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: LABOR

Provides that in addition to eight hours a day and five days a week, a person cannot work any more than ten hours in any one calendar day or more than four days in any one week, except in an emergency. /
Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: LABOR

Enacts the "save New York call center jobs act of 2013"; requires prior notice of relocation of call center jobs from New York to a foreign country; directs the commissioner of labor to maintain a list of employers who move call center jobs; prohibits loans or grants. /
Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: LABOR