Increases the threshold for applicability of wage payment protections for certain persons employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, from $900 to $1,300 per week.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5572
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 8, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the earnings
threshold for the applicability of certain provisions of law relating
to the payment of wages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 190 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 7. "Clerical and other worker" includes all employees not included in
4 subdivisions four, five and six of this section, except any person
5 employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capac-
6 ity whose earnings are in excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred
7 dollars a week.
8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 192 of the labor law as amended by chap-
9 ter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
10 2. This section shall not apply to any person employed in a bona fide
11 executive, administrative, or professional capacity whose earnings are
12 in excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred dollars a week, nor to
13 employees working on a farm not connected with a factory.
14 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 198-c of the labor law as amended by
15 chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
16 3. This section shall not apply to any person in a bona fide execu-
17 tive, administrative, or professional capacity whose earnings are in
18 excess of [nine] one thousand three hundred dollars a week.
19 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
20 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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