Bill Text: NY S06785 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6785 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 17, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD11145-04-1S. 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.