Bill Text: NY S00325 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires employers to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee who has not been scheduled or offered work hours in the past seven days or offered work for the next seven day period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00325-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           325

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to notice of eligibility for
          unemployment benefits

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  590  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2 to read as follows:
     3    2. Notice of eligibility. An employer shall be required to  provide  a
     4  written  notice  of  the  right to file for unemployment benefits to any
     5  employee who has not been scheduled or offered work hours  in  the  past
     6  seven days and has not been scheduled or offered work hours for the next
     7  seven  day period. Written notice will not be required if an employee is
     8  eligible for or has submitted a request for  leave-of-absence,  vacation
     9  leave,  bereavement  leave, parental leave, personal leave, or any other
    10  form of paid or unpaid leave established by the employer  or  documented
    11  in writing or submitted online.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01509-01-3
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