NYACS Positions on Store Operations Legislative Issues

• Workforce
• • • Oppose employee scheduling restrictions that reduce flexibility and increase costs for convenience store operators.
    • Fulfill the broken promise to bring the "fast food" minimum wage into alignment with the general occupation minimum wage.
    • Leave it to employers to determine how many paid sick days they can reasonably afford to offer their workers.
    • Stop adding employer costs and administrative complexity to the Paid Family Leave program.
      
      

• Age Verification
  • • Make enforcement agencies notify store management within 7 days of a tobacco or alcohol sale violation so the store can promptly remove the off ending cashier to prevent recurrence.
    • Explore opportunities for licensed convenience store operators to sell additional age-restricted products to adult customers.
      
      

• Plastic Bags
  • • Work collaboratively toward a solution on reducing plastic carryout bag consumption that balances environmental protection and customer convenience.
      
      

• Lottery
  • • To ensure proper age verification and support neighborhood retailers, prohibit online sales of New York State lottery tickets.
    • After 50 years, increase lottery agent commissions to offset higher costs of doing business.