Bill Text: NY S01668 | 2023-2024 | 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) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S01668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01668-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1668

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD04645-01-3