Bill Text: NY A05940 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5940 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the increase of an employer's rate of contribution to the unemployment insurance fund due to the deployment of an employee into active service in the national guard or armed forces reserves.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - held for consideration in labor [A05940 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05940-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5940

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTEFA-
          NO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to employer rates of contrib-
          ution to the unemployment insurance fund

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 581 of the labor law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the  contrary,  a
     4  qualified  employer's  rate  of  contribution  as  determined under this
     5  section shall not be increased as a result  of  the  deployment  of  any
     6  employee  into  the active service of the national guard or armed forces
     7  reserves for a period in excess of thirty days.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01988-01-1