Bill Text: NY A01919 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to written notice requirements for mass layoffs; includes a requirement to notify each locality which provides police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services to the site of employment at which the mass layoff will occur.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-08 - substituted by s2074 [A01919 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A01919-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1919 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to written notice require- ments for mass layoffs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 860-b of the labor law, as amended 2 by a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law relating to 3 written notice requirements for mass layoffs, as proposed in legislative 4 bills numbers S. 8748 and A. 10674-A, is amended to read as follows: 5 1. An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or employment 6 loss, unless, at least ninety days before the order takes effect, the 7 employer gives written notice of the order to the following: 8 (a) affected employees and the representatives of affected employees; 9 (b) the department; 10 (c) the local workforce investment boards established pursuant to the 11 federal Workforce Investment Act (P.L. 105-220) for the locality [in] of 12 the site of employment at which the mass layoff, relocation, or employ- 13 ment loss will occur; 14 (d) the chief elected official of the unit or units of local govern- 15 ment and the school district or districts [in] for the locality of the 16 site of employment at which the mass layoff, relocation or employment 17 loss will occur; and 18 (e) each locality which provides police, firefighting, emergency 19 medical or ambulance services or other emergency services to the site of 20 employment [subject to the] within which such mass layoff, relocation, 21 or employment loss will occur, as applicable. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 23 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law relating 24 to written notice requirements for mass layoffs, as proposed in legisla- 25 tive bills numbers S. 8748 and A. 10674-A, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07133-01-1