Though the bill gained some momentum in the City Council when it was introduced to the City Council a year and a half ago, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams
amNewYork email newsletterFor the last two years, a group of home care workers have been pushing a City Council bill to ban 24-hour shifts in their industry. Many of them have been rallying around this issue for almost 10 years.
The group of workers who will be rallying in front of City Hall during the strike for at least the next week are mostly aging women of color. New York state law that mandates health aides can only be paid for 13 hours for each shift, which includes an unpaid eight-hour period for sleep and three hours for meals. But labor advocates say that break time is rarely followed in practice because of the unending nature of the job.
During that hearing, Councilmembers in favor of Marte’s legislation suggested that passing the legislation at the City Council level could spur state legislators into action. Two years later, the workers pushing for reform have grown increasingly desperate to move the dial on the issue, and Marte said that he has got the approval of a powerful home care union who was previously opposed to the Council version of the bill.
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