File #: Int 0946-2018    Version: * Name: Prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety workers and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety workers.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
File created: 5/23/2018 In control: Committee on Civil Service and Labor
On agenda: 5/23/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety workers and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety workers
Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Keith Powers , Carlos Menchaca, Rory I. Lancman, Mark Levine, Ritchie J. Torres, Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., Stephen T. Levin, Ben Kallos, Alan N. Maisel, Fernando Cabrera , Carlina Rivera , Andrew Cohen, Costa G. Constantinides
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 946, 2. Int. No. 946, 3. May 23, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
Int. No. 946

By Council Members Lander, Brannan, Reynoso, Powers, Menchaca, Lancman, Levine, Torres, Espinal, Levin, Kallos, Maisel, Cabrera, Rivera, Cohen and Constantinides

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety workers and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety workers
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Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 14 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 14
UTILITY SAFETY WORKERS
? 20-1401 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
Director. The term "director" means the director of the office of labor standards established pursuant to section 20-a of the charter.
Office. The term "office" means the office of labor standards established pursuant to section 20-a of the charter.
On-call shift. The term "on-call shift" means any time period other than a utility safety employee's regular shift when the utility safety employer requires the utility safety employee to be available to work, regardless of whether the utility safety employee actually works and regardless of whether the utility safety employer requires the utility safety employee to report to a work location.
Regular shift. The term "regular shift" means a span of consecutive hours starting when a utility safety employer requires a utility safety employee to report to a work location and ending when the utility safety employee is free to leave a work location. Breaks totaling two hours or less are not an interruption of consecutive hours, provided that such breaks do not include time when the utility safety employee's work location is closed. The term "regular shift" does not include the hours worked by a utility safety employee who is called into work while on an on-call shift.
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