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- Referred to labor
- Referred to labor
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BILL NUMBER:A405
Title of bill
An act to amend the labor law and the public officers law, in relation to public access to certain records regarding public work and building service employees
Purpose or general idea of bill
Amends the public officer law to require the disclosure of records regarding public work projects. Does not require the disclosure of anyone's address, social security number or phone number.
Summary of specific provisions
Amends Sections 87 and 89 of the Public Officers Law to require the disclosure of names, rates of wages and supplements, employee classifications, and number of hours worked by workers employed on government projects covered by the prevailing wage law who have been designated by their contractors as apprentices.
Justification
This bill requires the disclosure of taxpayer payments to people working on a public project receiving government funds. The State constitution and the NYS Labor Law require the payment of the prevailing wage to persons employed on these projects. This bill does NOT require the disclosure of social security numbers, names, addresses or phone numbers. Somebody working on a government project, whose employer is required by law to certify his or her rate of pay of taxpay- er funds, is protected by this legislation. To be classified as an apprentice on a prevailing wage project that individual must be desig- nated by their employer as an "apprentice", enrolled in a NYSDOL approved apprenticeship program and registered with NYSDOL. The regis- tration list at NYSDOL is FOILable. This bill merely permits verifica- tion that properly enrolled apprentices have been correctly designated by their employer on the construction project.
Legislation history
A8503 of 2001-02: Vetoed by the Governor A8486 of 2003-04: Vetoed by the Governor A6625 of 2005-06: Veto 85 A.4365 of 2007-08: referred to Labor
Fiscal implications
None to the State. These records are required by law to be kept by public contracting agencies, are provided by public contractors, and the cost of copying is paid by the entity seeking the disclosure of the information.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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