Bill Text: NY A01553 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1553 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that an employer's account for unemployment insurance coverage shall not be charged when an employee quits without good cause, regardless of whether the former employee has filed and been disqualified for benefits and later files and qualifies for unemployment insurance based on subsequent employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in labor [A01553 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1553
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. KOLB, CORWIN, RABBITT, MONTESANO, MALLIOTAKIS --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to limiting the liability  of
         certain employers for unemployment insurance coverage
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 581 of the  labor
    2  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 2-a to read as follows:
    3    (2-A)  AN  EMPLOYER'S  ACCOUNT  SHALL  NOT BE CHARGED, AND THE CHARGES
    4  SHALL INSTEAD BE MADE TO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT, FOR BENEFITS  PAID  TO  AN
    5  EMPLOYEE  WHO  VOLUNTARILY SEPARATED FROM EMPLOYMENT AND THE CHARGES ARE
    6  ATTRIBUTABLE TO WEEKS OF THE CLAIMANT'S BASE PERIOD OF  EMPLOYMENT  WITH
    7  SUCH  EMPLOYER  PRIOR  TO THE EMPLOYEE'S VOLUNTARY SEPARATION OF EMPLOY-
    8  MENT.
    9    S 2. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of  section  581
   10  of  the  labor  law,  as  amended by chapter 589 of the laws of 1998, is
   11  amended to read as follows:
   12    (3)  An employer's account shall not be charged, and the charges shall
   13  instead be made to the general account, for benefits paid to a  claimant
   14  after  the  expiration  of  a  period  of disqualification from benefits
   15  following a final determination that the claimant lost  employment  with
   16  the  employer  through misconduct [or voluntary separation of employment
   17  without good cause within the meaning of section  five  hundred  ninety-
   18  three  of this article] and the charges are attributable to remuneration
   19  paid during  the claimant's base period of employment with such employer
   20  prior to the claimant's loss of employment with  such  employer  through
   21  misconduct [or voluntary separation of employment without good cause].
   22    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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