Enacts the "Higher Education Employment Protection Act"; 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: ROBACH Committee: LABOR

Relates to chronic care for injured workers; authorizes workers' compensation board to approve a monthly dollar allowance or treatment frequency for an injured worker to continue specialized treatment where the worker's injuries are deemed long term or permanent. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: LABOR

Relates to asbestos project notification and associated fee. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: LABOR

Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for a 10 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Provides workers' compensation benefits for injury or sickness, pregnancy or family leave; applies to an employee and to family members taking family leave to care for an employee. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: LABOR

Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: LABOR

Establishes the veterans' special disability fund to provide incentives to employers to hire veterans who were previously injured during active military duty. / Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: LABOR

Protects the privacy of employees' and prospective employees' social media accounts. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: LABOR

Relates to the entitlement to unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for ninety days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines "address on-going domestic violence"; contains provision to protect the individual's job position and benefits. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: LABOR

Requires notice from employers to customers of service charges and administrative fees that are not distributed to employees as gratuities. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: LABOR

Authorizes certain care and treatment to injured employees receiving workers' compensation benefits; relates to massage therapy services. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: LABOR

Applies the prevailing wage laws to certain projects on privately owned property. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: LABOR

Removes the mandatory aggregate trust fund deposit requirements for non-scheduled permanent partial disability cases. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee: LABOR

Authorizes minors who are 14 or older and are active members of a religious community to engage or assist in employment which such minors are otherwise prohibited from performing; requires such minors to be supervised by an adult member of such religious community. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: LABOR

Directs the chairman of the workers' compensation board to appoint and employ a referee to hear claims in each county in the city of New York. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: LABOR

Provides that students may be employed for up to five hours on any day preceding a school day as a qualified lifeguard or aquatic supervisory staff, provided that the employer receives and maintains both the written consent of the minor's parent or guardian and a certificate which shall be provided to the employer at the end of each marking period by the minor's school which shall assert that such minor is in satisfactory academic standing. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: LABOR

Establishes certain waivers from the project notification fee imposed for certain asbestos removal projects. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: LABOR

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

Protects the privacy of employees' and prospective employees' social media accounts. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: LABOR

Exempts contractors employed by the city of Buffalo from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: LABOR