Bill Text: NY A05678 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a claimant shall not be paid such benefits in excess of twenty-six times the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable to such individual for a week of total unemployment during a benefit year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-05 - substituted by s4049 [A05678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05678-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5678

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to benefits of shared work
          programs

          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 607 of the labor law, as amended
     2  by section 23 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1. Amount. An eligible claimant shall be paid benefits  for  any  week
     5  equal  to  his  or  her  benefit  rate  multiplied  by the percentage of
     6  reduction of his or her wages resulting from reduced hours of work,  but
     7  only if such percentage is no less than twenty percent. The weekly bene-
     8  fit  amount shall be rounded off to the nearest dollar. A claimant shall
     9  not be paid such benefits in excess  of  twenty-six  [weeks]  times  the
    10  amount  of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) paya-
    11  ble to such individual for a week of total unemployment during a benefit
    12  year.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09364-01-1