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NY A03909
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Harry Bronson
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AI Summary
- Designates the week containing May 1st each year as "workplace readiness week" in all New York secondary schools
- Requires instruction on worker rights including child labor laws, wage and hour protections, worker safety, workers' compensation, paid sick leave, anti-retaliation protections, and union organizing rights
- Mandates that 11th and 12th grade students receive workplace readiness education integrated into the history/social science curriculum
- Requires any minor applying for working papers to receive a document explaining basic labor rights, available in physical form and translated into languages spoken by 5% or more of students at any school
- Includes instruction on state-approved apprenticeship programs, civil service testing and jobs, and financial literacy basics such as banking, budgeting, and tax filing
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
referred to education
1/7/2026
Committee Referrals
Education1/30/2025
Full Bill Text
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