Bill Text: NY A03243 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires employers to provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences when the employee or employee's family member has been the victim of domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human trafficking upon the employee's request for reasons related to such offense or offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A03243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03243-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3243

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
          provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences due  to
          domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human
          trafficking

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

     1    Section 1. Section 196-b of the labor law is amended by adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     3    15.  In  cases  of  sick  leave,  paid or unpaid, provided pursuant to
     4  subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision four of  this  section,
     5  an  employee  shall  be  provided up to an additional ten days of unpaid
     6  leave upon request for an extension  of  leave  beyond  the  sick  leave
     7  provided to such employee pursuant to this section.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02955-01-3
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