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NY A08156
Bill
Status
10/13/2023
Primary Sponsor
Harry Bronson
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AI Summary
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Establishes "workplace readiness week" annually during the week containing May 1st, requiring all secondary schools to provide students with information on worker rights.
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Mandates instruction covering child labor laws, wage and hour protections, worker safety, workers' compensation, paid sick leave, anti-retaliation protections, and the right to unionize.
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Requires grades 11-12 instruction to be integrated into regular history/social science curriculum, with optional special after-school events during workplace readiness week.
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Mandates that minors receiving working papers be issued a document explaining basic labor rights in plain language and in languages spoken by 5% or more of enrolled students in their school.
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Directs the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University to develop a template document for working papers, created with input from labor organizations.
Legislative Description
Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.
Last Action
print number 8156a
1/26/2024