This bill (A 8417) extends the expiration date of the September 11th worker protection task force act from June 10, 2025, to June 10, 2030. It directly affects the existing task force established to address health and safety concerns for workers who responded to the 9/11 attacks. The key provision is a simple amendment to the act's expiration date, prolonging the task force's authority without altering its purpose or duties. This procedural extension ensures the task force can continue its work supporting affected workers through 2030.
This bill clarifies which employees are covered under New York's labor relations law. It states that the law does not apply to employees covered by federal labor laws (like the National Labor Relations Act), employees where the federal National Labor Relations Board has jurisdiction, or state/local government employees. For all other employees, the state labor board must promptly certify existing union representatives and keep current workplace terms in effect during the certification process. This ensures continuity for unionized workplaces not already governed by federal law.
Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements; requires thermal energy networks to require contractors and subcontractors to use pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.
Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program.
Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section.
Relates to terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists in the division of state police; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; makes an appropriation therefor; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
This bill extends the expiration date of disability benefits for volunteer firefighters suffering from heart or coronary artery conditions. It amends a 1977 law to keep the benefit program active until June 30, 2030, instead of ending in 2025. The change directly affects volunteer firefighters who qualify under this specific disability provision, ensuring continued access to benefits without altering the eligibility criteria or benefit amounts.
Enacts "the construction reporting pay act"; provides that each laborer, worker or mechanic in the employ of a contractor who by request or permission of an employer reports for work on any day shall be paid no less than four hours at the prevailing rate of wages.
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.
Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.
