Bill Text: NY A10352 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public employers who opt out of providing paid family leave benefits to provide parental leave in the alternative at the same pay rate and amount of time as paid family leave.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to labor [A10352 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10352-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10352

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rajkumar) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring
          public employers who opt out of providing paid family  leave  benefits
          to provide parental leave in the alternative

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 212-b of the workers' compensation
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  if  a
     4  public  employer chooses to opt out of paid family leave benefits pursu-
     5  ant to paragraph b of this subdivision, then such public employer  shall
     6  be required to offer parental leave to its employees for a period not to
     7  exceed twelve weeks during any fifty-two week calendar period. Employers
     8  shall  pay  employees on parental leave a rate of sixty-seven percent of
     9  the employee's average weekly wage  but  shall  not  exceed  sixty-seven
    10  percent of the New York state average weekly wage in effect.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13991-02-2