Advocacy Goals for 2024 and Beyond
- Protect the tip credit
- Support hospitality industry workforce development
- Reform the State’s unemployment insurance fund
- Seek education-based enforcement and cure periods for violations
- Promote a well-regulated street vendor sector
- Create a more workable set of scheduling regulations for the quick-service sector
- Preserve the right to use well-understood, substantive fees such as delivery fees
2024 Legislative Accomplishments:
- Passed Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act
- Passed SLA reforms: five more years of drinks to-go; temporary liquor licenses in NYC; direct-to-consumer sales for distilleries and cideries; permitted use of outdoor dining space beyond the bike lane
- Passed an end to Covid-specific sick pay
- Defeated the TEMP Act
- Defeated the expanded Bottle Bill
- Defeated expanded producer responsibility for packaging