New York Laws
Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act
653 - Investigation of Adequacy of Wages.

(2) The commissioner shall, within six months after enactment of any
change in the statutory minimum wage set forth in subdivision one of
section six hundred fifty-two of this article, appoint a wage board to
inquire and report and recommend any changes to wage orders governing
wages payable to food service workers. Such wage board shall be
established consistent with the provisions of subdivision one of section
six hundred fifty-five of this article, except the representatives of
the employees shall be selected upon the nomination of the state
American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations; and
provided, further, that the representatives of the employers shall be
selected upon the nomination of the New York State Business Council. Any
wage order authorizing a lesser wage than the previously and statutorily
mandated minimum wage for such employees shall be reviewed by the wage
board to ascertain at what level such wage order is sufficient to
provide adequate maintenance and to protect the health and livelihood of
employees subject to such a wage order after a statutory increase in the
mandated minimum wage.