{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-091","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2005/091","heading":"L.L. 2005/091","body":"Enactment date: 10/18/2005\n\nInt. No. 592-A\n\nBy Council Members Gentile, Sears, Stewart, DeBlasio, Gioia, Brewer, Clarke, Comrie, Fidler, Gennaro, Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Nelson, Perkins, Reyna, Sanders Jr., Seabrook, Weprin, Quinn, Martinez, Liu, Barron, Palma, Yassky, Jackson and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)\n\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a commission to study the feasibility of creating public/private partnerships to develop and operate job centers for immigrant day laborers.\n\nBe it enacted by the Council as follows:\n\nSection 1. Declaration of legislative intent. The Council finds that immigrant day laborers often work under dangerous conditions, without the benefit of proper training, equipment or safety precautions. An estimated 15,000 day laborers live and work in New York State, including between 5,800 and 8,300 in the greater metropolitan region, the vast majority of whom are believed to be immigrants. A recent survey of day laborers in New York City found that almost 85% of those surveyed have experienced some type of abuse in the industry: 50 percent experienced non-payment of wages, and 56 percent were paid less than the agreed upon wage. The informal congregation of day laborers on City streets while they wait for employment creates additional concerns regarding day labor employment.\n\nIn New York City, non-profit and community organizations have set up a handful of formally designated hiring sites, known as job centers, where day laborers and employers are able to connect under regulated conditions. These arrangements provide day laborers with viable and preferable alternatives to congregation on city streets, facilitate monitoring of health and safety conditions and improved enforcement of wage and hour laws, and create more systematic mechanisms for service providers to reach the day laborer community, which is otherwise transient and disorganized. The Council finds that job centers can improve the day labor industry through ensuring the use of contracts that clearly spell out agreed upon wages and dates of payment, assuring the availability of equipment essential for worker safety, gloves, and overalls, and by connecting employers with workers who have appropriate skills. The Council further finds that job centers have proven to be successful models for addressing the issues and concerns regarding day labor employment.\n\n* * *\n\n[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]\n\n* * *\n\n§ 3. Effect of invalidity; severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or other portion of this local law is, for any reason, declared unconstitutional or invalid, in whole or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed severable, and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this local law, which shall continue in full force and effect.\n\n§ 4. This local law shall take effect forty-five days after enactment.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","2005"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"0288cdba5a461b453b1930248b4bb0838826b016ef183eff528070dff999927f","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-089","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-097"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}