We enforce the State Labor Laws for minimum wage, hours of work, employment of minors, payment of wages, farm labor, nursing mothers in the workplace, and more. This pamphlet is intended to provide Employers and Employees with general information about their employment rights and responsibilities in New York State.Those who have the same or substantially similar interests concerning wages, hours, and working conditions are grouped together in a bargaining unit. AN ACT in relation to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws. Became a law March 9, 1921, with the approval of the Governor. New York law states that eligible employees who work more than 40 hours in a seven-day workweek are entitled to overtime pay. Ages 1415 may work up to 8 hours a day. They can work up to 40 hours a week, 6 days per week, and only between am and pm. By law, any employee working for more than 40 hours a week or 8 hours a day is entitled to overtime pay. Those who have the same or substantially similar interests concerning wages, hours, and working conditions are grouped together in a bargaining unit.