File #: Int 0428-2024    Version: * Name: The posting of information relating to wage theft at construction sites.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the posting of information relating to wage theft at construction sites
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Lincoln Restler, Amanda Farías, Tiffany Cabán, Diana I. Ayala, Farah N. Louis, Carlina Rivera , Yusef Salaam, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Julie Won, Crystal Hudson
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This local law would require construction sites post information, in a format developed by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), on such sites regarding how workers can file a wage theft complaint, as well as other information on worker rights as it pertains to protecting against wage theft. Such information would also be required to be posted in multiple languages as well.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 428, 2. Int. No. 428, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 428

 

By Council Members Sanchez, Restler, Farías, Cabán, Ayala, Louis, Rivera, Salaam, Brewer, Hanif, Won and Hudson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the posting of information relating to wage theft at construction sites

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 5 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subchapter 26 to read as follows:

Subchapter 26

Wage Theft at Construction Sites

 § 20-880 a. Posting of information related to wage theft at construction sites. The commissioner shall develop an informational document that shall include information about New York state law regarding the prevention of wage theft, how a person may file a complaints regarding wage theft with the New York state department of labor and the New York state attorney general or other official, and other information the commissioner deems relevant relating to wage theft or violations of state wage laws. Such document shall provide all such information in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101. b. Such document shall be posted on the website of the department.

c. The commissioner shall require that any person required to post a permit at a work site pursuant to section 28-105.11 shall also post a copy of the document required by subdivision a in a conspicuous area of the work site, such that it is accessible to every worker on such work site. 

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS # 9944

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Session 12

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