Are you on your feet all day at work? If so, some New York lawmakers want you to take a load off — as long as it doesn't interfere with your job.
to allow employees to sit at work if it doesn't interfere with the nature of the work. The state's Department of Labor would decide who gets to sit and which profession has to stay on its feet.
Assemblymember Karines Reyes, a Bronx Democrat and the bill's sponsor, knows first-hand what being on one's feet all day is like. She has been a registered nurse for several years and said science shows prolonged standing can lead to"Making accommodations for employees to have that option, to perhaps stand and sit whatever their duties allow them to — I think is fair and humane," Reyes said.
While the bill focuses on the people who are standing all day at work to get them a break because standing too long is bad for their health, sitting for too long can be detrimental to one's health, too. The bill's sponsors will start the heavy lifting of convincing fellow lawmakers and the governor once they're back in session in January.
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