BILL NUMBER: S5258
SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to the minimum wage outside
of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester;
and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating to exceptions to
minimum wage increases
 
PURPOSE:
Amends labor law to establish minimum wage parity across the state.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1-b of section 652 of the labor
law is REPEALED and paragraph (e) is relettered paragraph (d).
Section 2. Amends paragraph (c) of section 652 of labor law by updating
the minimum wage. Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
The 2023 minimum wage package brought some New Yorkers to $17 an hour, a
woefully inadequate raise for the New York City metro area, where the
MIT Living Wage calculator shows a living wage to be more than $22 an
hour. Additionally, the package failed to increase the wage to $17
statewide, leaving upstate regions behind, raising the upstate minimum
wage to just $16 an hour by 2026. This disparity ignores the reality
that many upstate regions, such as the Hudson Valley, have experienced
skyrocketing housing and living costs that are comparable to those in
parts of downstate. This legislation seeks to remedy this disparity and
give upstate New Yorkers an equal minimum wage raise.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: S.8154 - Referred to Labor
 
FISCAL IMPACT:
To be Determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

Statutes affected:
S5258: 652 labor law, 652(1-b) labor law, 652(1-a) labor law