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NY A00166
Bill
Status
1/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "employee's lien" allowing workers with wage claims to place liens on an employer's real property and personal property to secure unpaid wages, including liquidated damages under state and federal labor laws
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Authorizes the Department of Labor and Attorney General to file employee liens on behalf of workers who are subjects of their wage theft investigations or enforcement actions
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Adds wage claims as grounds for attachment under civil practice law, allowing workers to freeze employer assets while litigation is pending, with reduced or waived undertaking requirements (no more than $500 or waived entirely)
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Removes procedural barriers for holding shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft, eliminating the requirement that employees provide written notice within 180 days and wait for an unsatisfied judgment execution before pursuing shareholders
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Grants employees the right to inspect corporate shareholder records and LLC membership records to identify individuals who may be personally liable for unpaid wages, with attorney's fees awarded if the company wrongfully refuses inspection
Legislative Description
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
Last Action
referred to judiciary
1/7/2026