Bill Text: NY A00398 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to notice of eligibility for unemployment benefits; requires an employer to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee whose employment has been terminated or whose scheduled working hours have been reduced.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-14 - signed chap.366 [A00398 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00398-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         398--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to notice of eligibility for
          unemployment benefits

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  590  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2 to read as follows:
     3    2. Notice  of  eligibility  upon  separation  from  employment.  Every
     4  employer  liable  under this article for contributions shall inform each
     5  employee of their right to file an application for unemployment benefits
     6  with the department. Such information shall be given at the time of each
     7  permanent or indefinite separation from employment, reduction in  hours,
     8  temporary separation, and any other interruption of continued employment
     9  that  results  in  total  or  partial unemployment. Such notice shall be
    10  given in  writing on a form furnished or approved by the department  and
    11  shall include:
    12    (a) the employer's name and registration number;
    13    (b)  the  address  of the employer to which a request for remuneration
    14  and employment  information  with  respect  to  such  employee  must  be
    15  directed; and
    16    (c) such other information as is required by the commissioner.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01131-02-3