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- Referred to labor
- Referred to labor
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Requires employers of motor carriers to provide overtime pay to their employees
In Assembly Committee · Labor · Sponsor Michael G. Miller
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S65
Title of bill
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to overtime pay for employees of motor carriers
Purpose
This bill will allow motor car drivers doing business in New York state to collect an overtime rate of one and one-half times the worker's hourly wage for every hour worked in excess of forty hours per week.
Summary of provisions
The bill would add a new provision 160-a to the Labor Law to require motor carriers to pay their employees one and a half times their regular hourly wage for hours worked beyond 40 hours in any week.
Existing law
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act 29 USC sec. 213(b)(1) exempts motor carriers from the requirement to pay workers one and a half-time their hourly rate when they work more than 40 hours a week.
Justification
Motor carriers include armored car companies and other private or contract carriers that haul property or passengers on public highways in interstate or foreign commerce. Employees of such carriers often work long and difficult hours under stressful conditions. Armored car personnel, for example, frequently work fifty to sixty hours per week transporting thousands of dollars throughout New York state and nearby states while under constant surveillance and often confined to their vehicles. Motor carrier employees work under conditions that are regularly challenging and dangerous. Currently there are several armored car companies that voluntarily pay overtime after forty hours in New York. Some pay after fifty hours. This legislation would entitle all such workers to overtime pay.
Prior legislative history
2011-12: S.672 2010: Referred to Labor (Onorato) 2008: Similar bill S.7146/A.9992 Referred to Labor
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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