What's happening
This bill allows employers to pay youths under 18 with no prior job experience a lower training wage under certain conditions.
Why it matters
Creates a legal pathway for employers to hire youths under 18 with no prior job experience at a wage below the state minimum. , which could make it easier for teenagers to get their first jobs but also means they may earn less than other entry-level workers.
Sets clear limits on the use of the training wage. youths can only be paid this lower rate for up to 180 days, and employers can only apply it to 20% of their workforce or up to six employees per location, which aims to prevent widespread replacement of regular workers with lower-paid trainees.
Requires annual wage increases for youths who continue employment. under the training wage, incrementally narrowing the gap between their pay and the state minimum wage until they turn 18, which helps ensure that young workers’ incomes grow with experience.
Includes safeguards to prevent displacement of existing employees. , stating that no youth receiving a training wage can be used to replace someone earning the full minimum wage, addressing concerns about undermining current workers’ job security.
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Set Lower Youth Training Wage
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2 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Held for consideration in labor
- Referred to labor
- Referred to labor
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Lower Minimum Wage for Trainees
In Senate Committee · Labor · Sponsor Pamela Helming
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STATE OF NEW YORK
988
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, STEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a training wage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. Training wage. (a) A training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or one hundred percent of the federal minimum wage, whichever is less, may be paid to a youth who has no prior job experience.
(b) Any youth who receives a training wage pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and who did not work more than one hundred eighty days in the preceding calendar year, shall receive, at a minimum, an annual increase in wages equal to twenty-five percent of the difference between the training wage pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and the state minimum wage until such youth reaches the age of eighteen.
(c) For the purpose of this subdivision, youth is defined as a person who has not yet reached the age of eighteen, and prior job experience is defined as employment where an employee would have been accounted for on an employer's payroll records. No youth will be paid a training wage for more than one hundred eighty days. Employers are limited to twenty percent of their workforce, or no more than six employees receiving a training wage at any one particular location. At no time will a youth receiving a training wage be used to displace an employee who is receiving a wage equal to or greater than the state minimum wage.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04094-01-9
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