A 7874: Lowers the hours which constitute a work week over three years to thirty-hours.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7874 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 11, 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 the number of hours which constitute a work week 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, for all employees thirty-eight 5 hours shall constitute a legal week's work. 6 2. Where an employee works more than: 7 (a) eight hours in a single workday, they shall receive compensation 8 for overtime work at a rate which is at least one and one-half times the 9 employee's normal wage rate. 10 (b) twelve hours in a single workday, they shall receive compensation 11 for overtime work beyond twelve hours for such workday at a rate which 12 is at least two times the employee's normal wage rate. 13 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 160-a of the labor law, as added by 14 section one of this act, is amended to read as follows: 15 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for all 16 employees [thirty-eight] thirty-six hours shall constitute a legal 17 week's work. 18 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 160-a of the labor law, as amended by 19 section two of this act, is amended to read as follows: 20 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for all 21 employees [thirty-six] thirty-four hours shall constitute a legal week's 22 work. 23 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 160-a of the labor law, as amended by 24 section three of this act, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11237-01-5 
 A. 7874 2 1 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for all 2 employees [thirty-four] thirty-two hours shall constitute a legal week's 3 work. 4 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, 5 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 6 day after it shall have become a law; provided further, however, section 7 two of this act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 8 law; provided further, however, section three of this act shall take 9 effect two years after it shall have become a law; and provided further, 10 however, section four of this act shall take effect three years after it 11 shall have become a law.