A08092 Summary:
BILL NO | A08092B |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S01958-A |
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SPONSOR | Reyes |
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COSPNSR | Jacobson, Colton |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §215, Lab L | |
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Clarifies that workers shall not be punished or subjected to discipline by employers for lawful absences. |
A08092 Actions:
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06/11/2021 | referred to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/05/2022 | referred to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2022 | amend (t) and recommit to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2022 | print number 8092a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/06/2022 | amend (t) and recommit to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/06/2022 | print number 8092b | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/11/2022 | reported referred to codes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/17/2022 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | rules report cal.317 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | ordered to third reading rules cal.317 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2022 | REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2022 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S1958A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2022 | 3RD READING CAL.384 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2022 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2022 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11/21/2022 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11/21/2022 | signed chap.604 |
A08092 Committee Votes:
Joyner | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Abbate | Aye | DiPietro | Nay | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Byrne | Aye | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Aye | DeStefano | Aye | ||||||
Bronson | Aye | Schmitt | Aye | ||||||
Rozic | Aye | Durso | Aye | ||||||
Simon | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Steck | Aye | ||||||||
Barnwell | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Reyes | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Jacobson | Aye | ||||||||
Burgos | Aye | ||||||||
Zinerman | Aye | ||||||||
Taylor | Aye | ||||||||
Fernandez | Aye | ||||||||
Sillitti | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Cymbrowitz | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
O'Donnell | Aye | Mikulin | Aye | ||||||
Lavine | Aye | Tannousis | Aye | ||||||
Abinanti | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Aye | ||||||||
Hevesi | Aye | ||||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Walker | Aye | ||||||||
Vanel | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Carroll | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Dickens | Excused | ||||||||
Davila | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Excused | ||||||||
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A08092 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Clark
Yes
Friend
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Colton
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Smith
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Galef
ER
Lalor
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Solages
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Lawler
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Steck
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lucas
Yes
Quart
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Tague
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Darling
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Davila
Yes
Glick
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Brabenec
ER
Dickens
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera J
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
ER
Dilan
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Rivera JD
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
ER
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walker
Yes
Brown E
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Durso
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Burke
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Williams
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fall
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Niou
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Jones
Yes
Norris
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Joyner
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A08092 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A8092B SPONSOR: Reyes
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to clarifying that workers shall not be punished or subjected to discipline by employers for lawful absences   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To ensure that it shall be retaliation for an employer to discipline workers by assessing point or deductions from a timebank when an employ- ee has used any legally protected absence.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of this bill amends section 215 of the labor law to clarify that it is retaliation for an employer to discipline workers by assess- ing points or deductions from a timebank because an employee has used any legally protected absence. Section 2 established the effective date.   DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE): Creates protections by ensuring that such assignment of points is considered retaliation under section 215 of the labor law instead of creating new sections of the labor and executive laws.   JUSTIFICATION: Employees have the right to take legally-protected time off from their jobs to address certain medical, caregiving, and religious needs without penalty. Pregnant workers may need to take time off for a prenatal check-up or to obtain emergency medical care. Workers who are caregivers may need to stay home with a sick child or an elderly parent. Workers who have chronic health conditions, or who suddenly become ill, may need to seek ongoing or immediate medical attention. Too often, however, absence control or "no-fault" attendance policies violate workers' rights in New York State and discourage them from taking job-protected leave or time off to which they are entitled by law. Under such poli- cies, employees are assessed points (also referred to as "demerits" or "occurrences") for each absence regardless of the reason. Those points subject workers to discipline, often including termination. Such poli- cies may force employees to choose between taking care of their health and keeping their job. Employers maintain policies that "reliably fail to inform workers about their legal rights to take time off without punishment for certain illnesses, health conditions, or disabilities, or for the need to care for an ill loved one" under state, local, and federal civil rights laws. According to A Better Balance survey, the policies of sixty-six U.S. employers impacting approximately eighteen million workers, more than 80% of those policies failed to make clear that employees would not receive points for disability-related absences; many provided incomplete or misleading information to workers regarding their right to time off under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); and the majority of the policies indicated that workert will incur points when they miss work because they are sick. It is the intent of the New York State Legislature to make it explicitly clear that workers shall not be punished or subjected to discipline for lawful absences. Workers have the right to take legally-protected time off from their jobs to address certain medical, caregiving, and religious needs without penalty.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Minimal fiscal implications.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall become law.
A08092 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8092--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES, JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to clarifying that workers shall not be punished or subjected to discipline by employers for lawful absences The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 215 of the labor 2 law, as amended by chapter 564 of the laws of 2010, the closing para- 3 graph as added by chapter 126 of the laws of 2019, is amended as 4 follows: 5 (a) No employer or his or her agent, or the officer or agent of any 6 corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, or any other 7 person, shall discharge, threaten, penalize, or in any other manner 8 discriminate or retaliate against any employee (i) because such employee 9 has made a complaint to his or her employer, or to the commissioner or 10 his or her authorized representative, or to the attorney general or any 11 other person, that the employer has engaged in conduct that the employ- 12 ee, reasonably and in good faith, believes violates any provision of 13 this chapter, or any order issued by the commissioner (ii) because such 14 employer or person believes that such employee has made a complaint to 15 his or her employer, or to the commissioner or his or her authorized 16 representative, or to the attorney general, or to any other person that 17 the employer has violated any provision of this chapter, or any order 18 issued by the commissioner (iii) because such employee has caused to be 19 instituted or is about to institute a proceeding under or related to 20 this chapter, or (iv) because such employee has provided information to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03487-10-2A. 8092--B 2 1 the commissioner or his or her authorized representative or the attorney 2 general, or (v) because such employee has testified or is about to 3 testify in an investigation or proceeding under this chapter, or (vi) 4 because such employee has otherwise exercised rights protected under 5 this chapter, or (vii) because the employer has received an adverse 6 determination from the commissioner involving the employee, or (viii) 7 because such employee has used any legally protected absence pursuant to 8 federal, local, or state law. 9 An employee complaint or other communication need not make explicit 10 reference to any section or provision of this chapter to trigger the 11 protections of this section. 12 As used in this section, to threaten, penalize, or in any other manner 13 discriminate or retaliate against any employee includes; threatening to 14 contact or contacting United States immigration authorities or otherwise 15 reporting or threatening to report an employee's suspected citizenship 16 or immigration status or the suspected citizenship or immigration status 17 of an employee's family or household member, as defined in subdivision 18 two of section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law, to 19 a federal, state or local agency; or assessing any demerit, occurrence, 20 any other point, or deductions from an allotted bank of time, which 21 subjects or could subject an employee to disciplinary action, which may 22 include but not be limited to failure to receive a promotion or loss of 23 pay. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 25 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 26 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 27 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 28 on or before such date.
A08092 LFIN:
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A08092 Chamber Video/Transcript:
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