Bill Text: NY A10674 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to written notice requirements for mass layoffs; includes a requirement to notify all localities in the state where the employer remitted taxes in the current or previous year and each locality that provides police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services to real property where the employer has a place of business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-11 - approval memo.14 [A10674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10674-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10674--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 24, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Otis) --
          read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Labor  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to written notice require-
          ments for mass layoffs

          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 860-b of the labor law, as added
     2  by chapter 475 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or  employment
     4  loss,  unless,  at  least ninety days before the order takes effect, the
     5  employer gives written notice of the order to the following:
     6    (a) affected employees and the representatives of affected employees;
     7    (b) the department; [and]
     8    (c) the local workforce investment boards established pursuant to  the
     9  federal  Workforce  Investment  Act  (P.L.  105-220) for the locality in
    10  which the mass layoff, relocation, or employment loss will occur;
    11    (d) the chief elected official of the unit or units of  local  govern-
    12  ment  and  the  school  district  or districts in which the mass layoff,
    13  relocation or employment loss will occur; and
    14    (e) each  locality  which  provides  police,  firefighting,  emergency
    15  medical or ambulance services or other emergency services to the site of
    16  employment  subject  to the mass layoff, relocation, or employment loss,
    17  as applicable.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14822-03-0