NYACS Positions on Store Operations Legislative Issues
- Workforce
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- 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.
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- Age Verification
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- 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.
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- Plastic Bags
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- Work collaboratively toward a solution on reducing plastic carryout bag consumption that balances environmental protection and customer convenience.
- Work collaboratively toward a solution on reducing plastic carryout bag consumption that balances environmental protection and customer convenience.
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- Lottery
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- 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.
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