Bill Text: NY S06344 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6344

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires paid family leave benefits for public employees not represented by an employee organization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S06344 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06344-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6344

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 17, 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 workers' compensation law, in relation to paid fami-
          ly leave for public employees not represented by an employee organiza-
          tion

          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, as added by section 14 of part SS of chapter  54  of  the  laws  of
     3  2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  (a)  An employee organization may, pursuant to collective bargain-
     5  ing, opt in to paid family leave benefits  on  behalf  of  those  public
     6  employees  it is either certified or recognized to represent, within the
     7  meaning of article fourteen of the civil service law.  Nothing  in  this
     8  section  shall  prohibit  an  agreement  to  opt in to paid family leave
     9  between the employee organization and any public employer.  An  employee
    10  organization that has opted in to paid family leave benefits may, pursu-
    11  ant  to  collective bargaining, opt out of it as is mutually agreed upon
    12  between the employee organization and any public employer.
    13    [b.] (b) For public employees who are not represented by  an  employee
    14  organization, the public employer [may opt-in to paid family leave bene-
    15  fits  within ninety days notice to such public employees. Following opt-
    16  in by a public employer for  public  employees  not  represented  by  an
    17  employee  organization,  the  public employer may opt-out of paid family
    18  leave benefits with twelve months  notice  to  those  public  employees]
    19  shall  provide  paid  family  leave  benefits  in  accordance  with  the
    20  provisions of section two hundred four and two  hundred  eight  of  this
    21  article.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10793-01-3