Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Friday that working New Yorkers are receiving more protected time off. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are faced with impossible choices between their lives and their livelihoods,\u201d said Mamdani, who made the announcement while meeting with union workers. \u201cThey\u2019re faced between trying to keep their jobs and then trying to take care of their families.\u201d <\/p>\n
The new rule goes into effect Sunday and impacts more than three million employees. <\/p>\n
It ensures that workers receive an extra 32 hours of unpaid time off as soon as they get hired, then again on the first day of each calendar year. <\/p>\n
Brooklyn Councilmember Sandy Nurse (D-37th District) said the new law protects employees from retaliation. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou should be able to go handle your business, take care of people who depend on you and keep your job,\u201d said Nurse. <\/p>\n
The news came as a relief for James, an Amazon union worker, who told Mamdani that the mother of his four children is battling brain cancer. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt would help if I did have a little bit of extra time at the job where I didn\u2019t have to feel a little bit guilty as if I could possibly lose my job by trying not to lose a life of the family,\u201d said James. <\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will be enforcing the new rule. <\/p>\n
DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine said they are notifying 56,000 employers about the change, and that businesses can face fines up to $2,500 dollars per employee if they do not comply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Friday that working New Yorkers are receiving more protected time off. \u201cThey are faced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,46574,21900,1445,22925,9,24,63,129,131,130,3543,3555,9864,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-140542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-department-of-consumer-and-worker-protection","10":"tag-federal-workers","11":"tag-mamdani","12":"tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-union","20":"tag-unions","21":"tag-workers","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}