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S06266 Summary:

BILL NOS06266D
 
SAME ASSAME AS A08142-E
 
SPONSORBIAGGI
 
COSPNSRADDABBO, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, LIU, MARTINEZ, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY, THOMAS
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd Labor L, generally
 
Relates to minimum wage rates for covered airport workers.
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S06266 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6266--D
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 31, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. BIAGGI, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI,
          COMRIE,  GAUGHRAN,  GIANARIS,  GOUNARDES,  HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON,
          KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, LIU,  MARTINEZ,  MAYER,  METZGER,
          MYRIE,  PARKER,  PERSAUD,  RAMOS,  RIVERA,  SALAZAR,  SANDERS, SAVINO,
          SEPULVEDA, SERRANO,  SKOUFIS,  STAVISKY,  THOMAS  --  read  twice  and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Labor -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and  recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee  -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "healthy
          terminals act"
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "healthy
     2  terminals act".
     3    §  2.  The  article heading of article 9 of the labor law, as added by
     4  chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     5    PREVAILING WAGE FOR BUILDING SERVICE  EMPLOYEES  AND  COVERED  AIRPORT
     6  WORKERS
     7    § 3. Subdivisions 1, 4 and 8 of section 230 of the labor law, subdivi-
     8  sion  1  as amended by chapter 542 of the laws of 1984, subdivision 4 as
     9  amended by chapter 678 of the laws of 2007, and subdivision 8  as  added
    10  by  chapter  777  of the laws of 1971, are amended and four new subdivi-
    11  sions 1-a, 15, 16 and 17 are added to read as follows:
    12    1. "Building service employee" or "service employee" means any  person
    13  performing  work in connection with the care or maintenance of an exist-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13042-11-0

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     1  ing building, or in connection with the transportation of office  furni-
     2  ture  or  equipment  to or from such building, or in connection with the
     3  transportation and delivery of fossil  fuel  to  such  building,  for  a
     4  contractor  under  a contract with a public agency which is in excess of
     5  one thousand five hundred dollars and the principal purpose of which  is
     6  to furnish services through the use of building service employees.
     7    "Building service employee" or "service employee" includes, but is not
     8  limited,  to, watchman, guard, doorman, building cleaner, porter, handy-
     9  man, janitor,  gardener,  groundskeeper,  stationary  fireman,  elevator
    10  operator  and  starter,  window cleaner, and occupations relating to the
    11  collection of garbage or refuse, and to  the  transportation  of  office
    12  furniture  and  equipment,  and  to  the  transportation and delivery of
    13  fossil fuel but does not include clerical, sales, professional,  techni-
    14  cian and related occupations.
    15    "Building  service  employee"  or  "service  employee"  also  does not
    16  include any employee to  whom  the  provisions  of  articles  eight  and
    17  eight-a of this chapter are applicable.
    18    1-a. "Employee" means a building service employee or a covered airport
    19  worker.
    20    4.  "Contractor"  means  any employer who employs employees to perform
    21  building service work under a contract with a public  agency  and  shall
    22  include  any of the contractor's subcontractors. "Contractor" shall also
    23  include any covered airport employer as such term  is  defined  in  this
    24  section.
    25    8.  "Fiscal  officer"  means  the  industrial commissioner, except for
    26  building service work performed by or on  behalf  of  a  city,  or  work
    27  involving the employment of covered airport workers at a covered airport
    28  location  located in a city with a population of one million or more, in
    29  which case "fiscal officer" means the  comptroller  or  other  analogous
    30  officer of such city.
    31    15.  "Covered  airport location" means any airport operating under the
    32  jurisdiction of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey within the
    33  state.
    34    16. "Covered airport worker" means any person employed  by  a  covered
    35  airport  employer to perform work at a covered airport location provided
    36  at least  one-half  of  the  employee's  time  during  any  workweek  is
    37  performed  at a covered airport location. "Covered airport worker" shall
    38  not include any person employed  in  an  executive,  administrative,  or
    39  professional  capacity  as  defined  in  29  U.S.C. 213 (a)(1). "Covered
    40  airport worker" does not include any employee to whom the provisions  of
    41  article eight or eight-A of this chapter are applicable.
    42    17.  "Covered airport employer" means any person, corporation, limited
    43  liability company, or association employing any covered  airport  worker
    44  in  an  occupation,  industry,  trade,  business  or  service.  The term
    45  "covered airport employer" shall not include a public agency.
    46    § 4. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 231-a to read as
    47  follows:
    48    § 231-a. Prevailing wage for covered airport workers. 1. Notwithstand-
    49  ing any other provision of law, rule, or regulation to the contrary,  as
    50  used  in this section, the term "wage" shall mean: (a) basic hourly cash
    51  rate of pay; and (b) supplements.  The  term  "supplements"  shall  mean
    52  fringe  benefits including medical or hospital care, pensions on retire-
    53  ment or death, compensation for injuries or illness resulting from occu-
    54  pational activity, or insurance to provide any of the  foregoing,  unem-
    55  ployment  benefits,  life  insurance, disability and sickness insurance,
    56  accident insurance, and other bona fide fringe  benefits  not  otherwise

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     1  required  by  federal,  state  or  local law to be provided by a covered
     2  airport employer.
     3    2.  Not  earlier  than September first, two thousand twenty-one, every
     4  covered airport employer shall pay a covered airport worker working at a
     5  covered airport location a wage of not less than the prevailing wage  in
     6  the locality for the craft, trade, or occupation of such covered airport
     7  worker.
     8    3.  The  obligation  of  a  covered airport employer to pay prevailing
     9  supplements may be discharged by furnishing any equivalent  combinations
    10  of  fringe  benefits or by making equivalent or differential payments in
    11  cash under rules and regulations established by the fiscal officer.
    12    4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, rule, or regulation to
    13  the contrary, for the purposes of this section "prevailing  wage"  shall
    14  mean  the wage determined by the fiscal officer to be prevailing for the
    15  various classes of covered airport workers in  the  locality;  provided,
    16  however,  that  in  no  event  shall the prevailing wage applicable to a
    17  covered airport worker on and after September first, two thousand  twen-
    18  ty-one  and  every  year  thereafter be less than the following: (a) any
    19  otherwise applicable minimum wage rate established through a  policy  of
    20  the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; and
    21    (b) an amount of wages or supplements equal to the rate for health and
    22  welfare  for  all occupations, designated by the fiscal officer based on
    23  the determinations made by the federal department of labor  pursuant  to
    24  the  McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act of 1965 41 U.S.C.  6701 et seq
    25  for the geographic region in  which  the  covered  airport  location  is
    26  located and in effect on the date of the designation by the fiscal offi-
    27  cer.
    28    5.  On  or  before  September  first, two thousand twenty-one and each
    29  subsequent September first, the fiscal officer shall designate the  wage
    30  and  supplemental  benefits  rate required under this section by classi-
    31  fication and region in which each covered airport is located. The fiscal
    32  officer shall publicly post such designated wage rate.
    33    6. Nothing in this article shall be  deemed  to  alter  or  limit  any
    34  employer's  obligation  to  pay any otherwise applicable prevailing wage
    35  under any other provision of this article or article eight of this chap-
    36  ter.
    37    § 5. The section heading of section 231 of the labor law, as added  by
    38  chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    39    Prevailing wage for building service employees.
    40    § 6. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 233 of the labor law, as added by
    41  chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as follows:
    42    1.  In  all  cases where service work is being performed pursuant to a
    43  contract therefor, or where  work  is  being  performed  pursuant  to  a
    44  contract  involving  the  employment  of  covered  airport  workers, the
    45  contractor  shall  keep  original  payrolls  or   transcripts   thereof,
    46  subscribed  and  confirmed  by  him as true, under penalties of perjury,
    47  showing the hours and days worked by each employee, the craft, trade  or
    48  occupation at which he was employed, and the wages paid.
    49    2.  Where  the  wages paid include sums which are not paid directly to
    50  the [workmen] employees weekly and which are expended  for  supplements,
    51  the  records  required  to  be maintained shall include a record of such
    52  hourly payment on behalf of such employees,  the  supplement  for  which
    53  such  payment  has  been made, and the name and address of the person to
    54  whom such payment has been made. In all such cases, the contractor shall
    55  keep a true and  inscribed  copy  of  the  agreement  under  which  such

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     1  payments  are  made, a record of all net payments made thereunder, and a
     2  list of all persons for whom such payments are made.
     3    §    7.  Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 234 of the
     4  labor law, as added by chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, are amended  and
     5  a new paragraph (e-1) is added to read as follows:
     6    (a)  to  cause  an  investigation  to  be  made to determine the wages
     7  prevailing in  any  locality  in  all  crafts,  trades  and  occupations
     8  involved  in  service  work  or work involving the employment of covered
     9  airport workers; in making such investigation, the  fiscal  officer  may
    10  utilize wage and fringe benefit data from various sources including, but
    11  not  limited  to,  data  and  determinations  of federal, state or other
    12  governmental agencies;
    13    (c) to examine the books, documents  and  records  pertaining  to  the
    14  wages paid to, and the hours of work performed by, [service] employees;
    15    (e-1)  to  make  a  classification  by craft, trade or other generally
    16  recognized occupational category of the covered airport workers  and  to
    17  determine  whether such work has been performed by the employees in such
    18  classification;
    19    § 8. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 235 of the labor law, as added by
    20  chapter 777 of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as follows:
    21    1. Whenever the fiscal officer has reason to believe that [a  service]
    22  an  employee  has  been  paid  less  than  the  wages  stipulated in the
    23  contract, or if such contract has no wage schedule attached thereto  and
    24  the  fiscal  officer  has reason to believe that [a service] an employee
    25  has been paid less than the wages prevailing for  his  craft,  trade  or
    26  occupation,  the  fiscal  officer  may,  and  upon  receipt of a written
    27  complaint from an employee employed thereon,  shall  conduct  a  special
    28  investigation to determine the facts relating thereto.
    29    3.  If,  despite the requirements of law, the contract for the service
    30  work or work involving the employment of  covered  airport  workers  has
    31  been  awarded  without  the  annexation thereto of the schedule of wages
    32  provided for in this article, the fiscal officer shall determine in  the
    33  proceeding  before  him  the  wages  prevailing at the time the work was
    34  performed for  the  crafts,  trades  or  occupations  of  the  employees
    35  involved.
    36    § 9. Section 236 of the labor law, as added by chapter 777 of the laws
    37  of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    38    §  236.  Failure  to protest underpayments. Notwithstanding any incon-
    39  sistent provision of this chapter or of any other  general,  special  or
    40  local  law,  ordinance,  charter  or administrative code, [a service] an
    41  employee shall not be barred from his right to  recover  the  difference
    42  between the amount actually paid to him and the amount which should have
    43  been  paid  to  him pursuant to an order entered under the provisions of
    44  this article because of the prior receipt  by  him  without  protest  of
    45  wages  paid  or  on account of his failure to state orally or in writing
    46  upon any payroll or receipt which he is required to sign that the  wages
    47  received by him are received under protest, or on account of his failure
    48  to  indicate  his protest against the amount, or that the amount so paid
    49  does not constitute payment in full of wages  due  him  for  the  period
    50  covered by such payment.
    51    § 10. Subdivisions 1 and 4 of section 237 of the labor law, as amended
    52  by chapter 698 of the laws of 1988, are amended to read as follows:
    53    1.  Subcontractors engaged for service work, or for work involving the
    54  employment of covered airport workers, by a contractor  or  its  subcon-
    55  tractor  shall, upon receipt from the contractor or its subcontractor of
    56  the schedule of wages and supplements specified in the contract, provide

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     1  to the contractor or its subcontractor a  verified  statement  attesting
     2  that  the subcontractor has received and reviewed such schedule of wages
     3  and supplements, and agrees that it will pay the  applicable  prevailing
     4  wages  and  will  pay or provide the supplements specified therein. Such
     5  verified statement shall be filed in the manner described in subdivision
     6  three of this section, provided, however, that in the case of  contracts
     7  for work involving the employment of covered airport workers, such veri-
     8  fied statement shall be subject to inspection upon request of the fiscal
     9  officer.   It shall be a violation of this article for any contractor or
    10  its subcontractor to fail to provide for its subcontractor a copy of the
    11  schedule of wages and supplements specified in the contract.
    12    4. If any interested person shall have previously filed a  protest  in
    13  writing  objecting  to the payment to any contractor or subcontractor to
    14  the extent of the amount or amounts due or to  become  due  to  him  for
    15  daily  or  weekly  wages  for labor performed on the work for which such
    16  contract was entered into, or if for any other reason it may  be  deemed
    17  advisable,  the comptroller of the state or the financial officer of the
    18  public agency or other officer or person charged with  the  custody  and
    19  disbursement  of the state or corporate funds applicable to the contract
    20  for such work, may deduct from  the  whole  amount  of  any  payment  on
    21  account  thereof  the  sum or sums admitted by any contractor or subcon-
    22  tractor in such statement or statements as filed to be due and owing  by
    23  him  or  her  on  account  of labor performed on such work before making
    24  payment of the amount certified for payment in any estimate or  voucher,
    25  and may withhold the amount so deducted for the benefit of the [service]
    26  employees  whose  wages  are  unpaid as shown by the verified statements
    27  filed by any contractor or subcontractor, and may pay  directly  to  any
    28  person  the amount or amounts shown by the statements filed as hereinbe-
    29  fore required to be due to him or her or  his  or  her  duly  authorized
    30  collective  bargaining  labor organization receiving such payment to the
    31  extent of the amount thereof.
    32    § 11. Subdivision 2 of section 238 of the labor law, as added by chap-
    33  ter 777 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    34    2. When a contract for service work or work involving  the  employment
    35  of  covered airport workers contains as part thereof a schedule of wages
    36  as provided for in this article, any contractor who, after entering into
    37  such contract, and any subcontractor of such contractor who fails to pay
    38  to any [service] employee the wages stipulated in such wage schedule  is
    39  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon conviction shall be punished for a
    40  first offense by a fine of five hundred dollars or by  imprisonment  for
    41  not more than thirty days or by both fine and imprisonment; for a second
    42  offense  by  a fine of one thousand dollars, and in addition thereto the
    43  contract on which the violation has occurred shall be forfeited; and  no
    44  such  contractor  shall  be  entitled  to receive any sum, nor shall any
    45  officer, agent or employee of the contracting public agency pay any such
    46  sum or authorize its payment from the funds under his charge or  control
    47  to such contractor for work done upon the contract on which the contrac-
    48  tor  has  been  convicted  of  a  second offense.   If the contractor or
    49  subcontractor is a corporation, any  officer  of  such  corporation  who
    50  knowingly  permits  the  corporation  to fail to make such payment shall
    51  also be guilty of a misdemeanor and the  criminal  and  civil  penalties
    52  herein shall attach to such officer upon conviction.
    53    §  12.  Section  239  of the labor law, as added by chapter 777 of the
    54  laws of 1971, subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 as amended by chapter 770 of  the
    55  laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:

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     1    §  239.  Provisions in contracts prohibiting discrimination on account
     2  of race, creed, color, national origin, age or sex.  Every contract  for
     3  service work or work involving the employment of covered airport workers
     4  shall contain provisions by which the contractor agrees:
     5    (1)  that in the hiring of employees for the performance of work under
     6  the contract or any subcontract thereunder within the territorial limits
     7  of this state, no contractor, subcontractor, nor any  person  acting  on
     8  behalf  of  such  contractor  or subcontractor, shall by reason of race,
     9  creed, color, national origin,  age,  sex  or  disability,  discriminate
    10  against any citizen of the state of New York who is qualified and avail-
    11  able to perform the work to which the employment relates;
    12    (2)  that  no  contractor, subcontractor, nor any person on his behalf
    13  shall, in any manner, discriminate against or  intimidate  any  employee
    14  hired for the performance of work under the contract on account of race,
    15  creed, color, national origin, age, sex or disability;
    16    (3) that there may be deducted from the amount payable to the contrac-
    17  tor  by  the public agency under the contract for service work a penalty
    18  of fifty dollars for each person for each day during which  such  person
    19  was  discriminated against or intimidated in violation of the provisions
    20  of the contract;
    21    (4) that the contract for service work may be cancelled or  terminated
    22  by the public agency, and all moneys due or to become due thereunder may
    23  be  forfeited  for  a second or any subsequent violation of the terms or
    24  conditions of this section of the contract.
    25    § 13. Section 239-a of the labor law, as added by chapter 777  of  the
    26  laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    27    §  239-a. Enforcement of article. 1. If the fiscal officer, as defined
    28  herein, finds that any contractor on service work fails to  comply  with
    29  or  evades  the provisions of this article, he shall present evidence of
    30  such noncompliance or evasion to the public agency having charge of such
    31  work for enforcement.  Where such evidence indicates a noncompliance  or
    32  evasion  on the part of a subcontractor, the contractor shall be respon-
    33  sible for such noncompliance or evasion.  It shall be the  duty  of  the
    34  public  agency  in charge of such service work to enforce the provisions
    35  of this article.
    36    2. If the fiscal officer, as defined herein, finds that any contractor
    37  on work involving the employment of covered  airport  workers  fails  to
    38  comply  with  or  evades the provisions of this article, it shall be the
    39  duty of the fiscal officer to enforce the provisions of this article.
    40    § 14. If any provision of this article or the application  thereof  to
    41  any  person,  employer,  occupation or circumstance is held invalid, the
    42  remainder of the article and the application of such provision to  other
    43  persons,  employees, occupations, or circumstances shall not be affected
    44  thereby.
    45    § 15. This act shall take effect on January 1, 2021.  Effective  imme-
    46  diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
    47  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    48  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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