Bill Text: NY S06785 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to notice of eligibility for unemployment benefits; requires an employer to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee whose employment has been terminated or whose scheduled working hours have been reduced.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to labor [S06785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6785

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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.  Any  written notice provided pursuant to
     4  subdivision six of section one hundred ninety-five of  this  chapter  to
     5  any  employee  whose  employment  has been terminated or whose scheduled
     6  working hours have been reduced shall include written notice  that  such
     7  employee may be eligible for benefits under this article and information
     8  about  applying  for such benefits.  The written notice required by this
     9  subdivision will not be required if such employee is eligible for or has
    10  submitted a request for leave-of-absence,  vacation  leave,  bereavement
    11  leave,  parental  leave,  personal  leave,  or any other form of paid or
    12  unpaid leave established by the employer or  documented  in  writing  or
    13  submitted online.
    14    §  2. Subdivision 6 of section 195 of the labor law, as added by chap-
    15  ter 524 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
    16    6. notify any employee terminated from employment or  whose  scheduled
    17  working  hours  have been reduced, in writing, of the exact date of such
    18  termination or reduction in scheduled working hours as well as the exact
    19  date of cancellation of employee benefits  connected  with  such  termi-
    20  nation  or  reduction.  Such notice shall also include information about
    21  unemployment benefits under article eighteen of this chapter  for  which
    22  such  employee  may  be  eligible  in accordance with subdivision two of
    23  section five hundred ninety of this chapter. In no case shall notice  of
    24  such  termination  or  reduction be provided more than five working days
    25  after the date of such termination or reduction. Failure  to  notify  an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6785                             2

     1  employee  of  cancellation  of  accident or health insurance subjects an
     2  employer to an additional penalty pursuant to section two hundred seven-
     3  teen of this chapter.
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.