File #: Int 1368-2019    Version: Name: Providing information to private sanitation employees.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 1/24/2019
Enactment date: 3/18/2019 Law number: 2019/056
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information to private sanitation employees
Sponsors: Francisco P. Moya, Helen K. Rosenthal, Ben Kallos
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: The proposed legislation would require the Business Integrity Commission (BIC) to provide information about workers’ rights on their website and mandate that private carters registered by BIC provide information about workers’ rights directly to their employees.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1368-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1368, 3. Int. No. 1368, 4. January 24, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-24-19, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - January 24, 2019, 7. Committee Report 1/29/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 1/29/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 1/29/19, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1368-A - 3/1/19, 11. Committee Report 2/27/19, 12. Hearing Transcript 2/27/19, 13. February 28, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-19, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2019, 16. Int. No. 1368-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Mayor's Letter, 19. Local Law 56
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
3/19/2019AFrancisco P. Moya City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/18/2019AFrancisco P. Moya Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/18/2019AFrancisco P. Moya Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2019AFrancisco P. Moya City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2019AFrancisco P. Moya City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2019*Francisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2019*Francisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2019*Francisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2019AFrancisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2019*Francisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2019*Francisco P. Moya Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/24/2019*Francisco P. Moya City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/24/2019*Francisco P. Moya City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1368-A

 

By Council Members Moya, Rosenthal and Kallos

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information to private sanitation employees

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 16-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-528 to read as follows:

§ 16-528 Workers’ rights information. a. The commission shall require trade waste licensees and registrants to disseminate directly to their employees engaged in operating vehicles or handling waste, and post conspicuously, the following information:

(i) the maximum number of hours such employees are permitted to work in a twenty-four hour period;

(ii) the minimum wage such employees must be paid;

(iii) any required worker safety trainings for such employees;

(iv) information regarding what safety equipment must be provided by employers;

                     (v) a description of how to contact the commission to lodge a complaint; and

(vi) a list of additional government agencies that accept complaints about violations of workers’ rights, including the New York state attorney general, the New York state department of labor, and the United States department of labor, and contact information for such agencies.

b. Additionally, the commission shall post the above information on its website, and shall include descriptions and examples of violations of workers’ rights under city, state and federal law that the commission is aware of having occurred in the trade waste industry.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 270 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

NKA

2/20/2019

4:22pm

LS 7886/7887