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NY A02569
Bill
Status
1/26/2023
Primary Sponsor
Nily Rozic
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AI Summary
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Requires employers to make hazard payments to essential workers during state disaster emergencies when workers face unavoidable, clear, and direct safety and health risks due to their work assignments.
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Defines "essential worker" to include employees in healthcare, infrastructure, retail, transportation, construction, childcare, government support, and other critical services designated during a disaster emergency.
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Applies to formula retail stores, large employers (with $50+ million annual revenue), transportation businesses, and their franchisees or subcontractors; excludes manufacturers and non-profit organizations.
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Caps hazard payments at $25,000 per year for workers earning less than $200,000 annually and $5,000 per year for workers earning $200,000 or more.
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Specifies hazard payments are additional to base salary, do not affect performance bonuses or other benefits, and terminate when the state disaster emergency ends.
Legislative Description
Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars.
Last Action
referred to labor
1/3/2024