Requires contracts with home care service providers to provide sufficient resources to ensure compensation to a qualified workforce providing high quality care; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care facilities to finance health care reform efforts.
Establishes the schedules that work act to provide for a timely, good faith interactive process between employees and employers that includes a discussion of potential schedule changes to meet an employee's needs.
This bill (S 5503) prohibits discrimination based on a person's height or weight in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It amends New York's Executive Law to add height and weight as protected characteristics under existing anti-discrimination statutes, making it illegal for employers, housing providers, and public spaces to deny opportunities or services based on these factors. The law includes exceptions for federal requirements and reasonable accommodations that allow individuals to perform job duties. It also explicitly prohibits harassment related to height or weight and clarifies that employers must demonstrate they had no alternative accommodations before applying height/weight standards.
This New York State bill allows for advance payments of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to qualifying low-income workers, replacing the current system where refunds are issued after annual tax filing. Eligible workers - including those aged 19 or older (down from 25) and without children - will receive four payments: three during the year (20% of the expected credit) and one adjusted payment after the tax year ends. The bill also increases the credit percentage for 2027 and later years (up to 40%), raises the income threshold for phaseout to $24,960 (from $11,610), and includes annual inflation adjustments. Payments will be delivered via direct deposit or electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card.
Establishes the New York workforce stabilization act; requires certain businesses to conduct artificial intelligence impact assessments on the application and use of such artificial intelligence and to submit such impact assessments to the department of labor prior to the implementation of the artificial intelligence; establishes a surcharge on certain corporations that use artificial intelligence or data mining or have greater than a threshold number of employees displaced by artificial intelligence of a rate of 2% of the corporation's business income base; defines data mining.
This bill provides a 10% annual reduction in workers' compensation insurance costs for landscape businesses. It applies to businesses primarily focused on land modification (like lawn care, gardening, and tree work) where at least 50% of employees complete a state-approved safety course. The reduction requires businesses to apply annually using a standardized form developed by state insurance and labor officials. This policy directly affects landscape businesses seeking to lower insurance expenses through employee safety training.
Ensures that construction and fabrication done off of a public work site for specific use only in a public work project be compensated at the prevailing wage rate.
Authorizes equitable tip pooling structures for counter service restaurants that pay all employees at or above minimum wage; authorizes tip pooling for service and non-service employees.
Enacts the "Omnibus Prevailing Wage Enforcement Act"; creates the office of the prevailing wage fraud inspector general for increased vigilance in the effort to achieve prevailing wage enforcement; allows public authorities to require that successful bidders for public works jobs participate in a state-sponsored apprenticeship program; makes related provisions.
Enacts the "anti-waiver of employment rights act" to invalidate any express or implied contractual provision waiving or otherwise limiting any employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claim.
