A 5744: Prohibits the addition or change to certain wage orders which would have the effect of requiring an employer to pay an employee for time not actually worked.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5744 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting the addition or change to certain wage orders which would have the effect of requiring an employer to pay an employee for time not actually worked The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 659 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any new 4 wage order or regulation or revision of an existing wage order or regu- 5 lation issued or adopted by the commissioner on or after January first, 6 two thousand twenty-six shall not be valid if such wage order or regu- 7 lation would have the effect of requiring an employer to pay an employee 8 for time not actually worked. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00155-01-5