Bill Text: NY A02844 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2018-05-30 - held for consideration in labor [A02844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02844-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2844
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. KOLB, MONTESANO, MALLIOTAKIS, CURRAN, GOODELL,
          BRABENEC -- 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    § 2. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of  section  581
    10  of the labor law, as amended by section 6 of part O of chapter 57 of the
    11  laws of 2013, is 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  provided,  however,  that  an  employer shall not be relieved of charges
    23  pursuant to this subparagraph if an  employer  or  its  agent  fails  to
    24  submit  information resulting in an overpayment pursuant to section five
    25  hundred ninety-seven of this article.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03196-01-7