Bill Text: NY A08990 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to volunteer firefighter job protection and volunteer ambulance worker job protection by prohibiting employers from discharging or discriminating against an employee because he or she responded to emergency when acting as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to labor [A08990 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08990-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8990
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 17, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. SKARTADOS, ALESSI -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to volunteer firefighters and
         emergency medical services personnel job protection
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 207-b to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 207-B. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND AMBULANCE WORKER JOB PROTECTION. 1.
    4  IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY EMPLOYER OR  HIS  OR  HER  DULY  AUTHORIZED
    5  AGENT  TO  DISCHARGE  OR  IN  ANY  OTHER  MANNER DISCRIMINATE AGAINST AN
    6  EMPLOYEE AS TO HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE HE OR SHE HAS RESPONDED  TO
    7  AN  EMERGENCY  WHEN ACTING AS A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER OR VOLUNTEER AMBU-
    8  LANCE WORKER.
    9    2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   10    (A) VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING  AS  DEFINED  IN
   11  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF SECTION THREE OF THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS' BENEFIT
   12  LAW; AND
   13    (B) VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS  DEFINED
   14  IN  SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE OF THE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKERS'
   15  BENEFIT LAW.
   16    3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,  "RESPONDING  TO  AN  EMERGENCY"
   17  SHALL MEAN:
   18    (A)  WHEN A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER PARTICIPATES IN NECESSARY TRAVEL TO,
   19  WORKING AT, AND NECESSARY TRAVEL RETURNING FROM A FIRE, ALARM  OF  FIRE,
   20  HAZARDOUS  MATERIAL INCIDENT OR OTHER EMERGENCY TO WHICH HIS OR HER FIRE
   21  DEPARTMENT, FIRE COMPANY, ANY UNIT  THEREOF,  EITHER  HAS  RESPONDED  OR
   22  WOULD  BE  REQUIRED OR AUTHORIZED TO RESPOND, INCLUDING NECESSARY TRAVEL
   23  DURING SUCH WORK OR INCIDENTAL THERETO; OR
   24    (B) WHEN A VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER PARTICIPATES IN NECESSARY TRAVEL
   25  TO, WORKING AT, AND NECESSARY TRAVEL RETURNING FROM AN  ACCIDENT,  ALARM
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14409-02-9
       A. 8990                             2
    1  OF  ACCIDENT,  OR  OTHER  DUTY TO WHICH HIS OR HER AMBULANCE DEPARTMENT,
    2  AMBULANCE COMPANY, OR ANY UNIT THEREOF, EITHER HAS RESPONDED OR WOULD BE
    3  REQUIRED OR AUTHORIZED TO RESPOND,  INCLUDING  NECESSARY  TRAVEL  DURING
    4  SUCH WORK OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.