A 4629: Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4629 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to reducing the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 160-a to 2 read as follows: 3 § 160-a. Hours to constitute a week's work. 1. Notwithstanding any 4 other provision of law to the contrary, a legal week's work shall 5 consist of thirty-two hours for any employer with at least five hundred 6 employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement. 7 2. No employee compensation shall be reduced due to the reduction in 8 hours considered a legal week's work under this section. 9 3. This section shall not prevent an agreement for overwork at an 10 increased compensation of at least one hundred fifty percent of the 11 employee's base compensation. 12 § 2. Section 232 of the labor law, as added by chapter 777 of the 13 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows: 14 § 232. Overtime. 1. An employee, employed by a contractor, who works 15 more than eight hours in any one day or more than forty hours in any 16 workweek shall be paid wages for such overtime at a rate not less than 17 one-and-one-half times [his] their prevailing basic cash hourly rate. 18 2. An employee, employed by a contractor with at least five hundred 19 employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement, who 20 works more than eight hours in any one day or more than thirty-two hours 21 in any workweek shall be paid wages for such overtime at a rate not less 22 than one-and-one-half times their prevailing basic cash hourly rate. No 23 employee compensation shall be reduced due to the reduction in hours 24 considered a legal week's work under this subdivision. This subdivision EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06530-01-5 
 A. 4629 2 1 shall not prevent an agreement for overtime at an increased compensation 2 of at least one hundred fifty percent of the employee's base compen- 3 sation. 4 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.