New York’s threshold for a white-collar worker exemption is slated to be increased under legislation passed by the New York legislature last week. This requirement does not directly relate to New York’s salary threshold for white-collar exemptions under the New York Wage Orders, the pending increases to which we discussed earlier this year, but rather to a different threshold for the applicability of several wage-related requirements under New York law.
Article 6 of the New York Labor Law is titled “Payment of Wages” and sets forth many of New York’s protections for employees’ wages. This statute establishes generally applicable requirements that apply to all private sector employees including, for example, restrictions on wage deductions in Section 193 of the Labor Law.1 Several notable provisions within the statute, however, exclude employees working in a “bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity whose earnings are in excess of nine hundred dollars a week.”
On June 7, the New York legislature passed Senate Bill 5572 / Assembly Bill 6796 which, if signed by the governor, would increase this current $900 per week threshold to $1,300. The Senate sponsor’s memo notes that the bill’s purpose is to increase the number of employees who can seek the assistance of the State Department of Labor, which the sponsor says has refused to take wage claims from administrative, professional, or executive employees earning more than the current threshold of $900. The...
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