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

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

Applies the prevailing wage laws to certain projects on privately owned property. /
Sponsor: LANZA 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 prevailing wages for service workers; amends certain definitions, payroll filing requirements and penalties for violations thereof. /
Sponsor: SAVINO Committee: LABOR

Permits an employer to file an application with the department of labor to be exempted from the provisions of the workers' compensation law with respect to employees whose religious tenets or teachings oppose acceptance of any insurance benefits. /
Sponsor: YOUNG 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

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

Enacts the "save New York call center jobs act of 2012"; 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

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

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

Provides that police officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered under health and safety standards for public employees. /
Sponsor: LANZA 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