Bill Text: NY S07902 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires employers to provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences when the employee or employee's family member has been the victim of domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human trafficking upon the employee's request for reasons related to such offense or offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07902 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07902-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7902 IN SENATE January 3, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MYRIE -- 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 requiring employers to provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences due to domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human trafficking The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 196-b of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 15 to read as follows: 3 15. In cases of sick leave, paid or unpaid, provided pursuant to 4 subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision four of this section, 5 an employee shall be provided up to an additional ten days of unpaid 6 leave upon request for an extension of leave beyond the sick leave 7 provided to such employee pursuant to this section. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02955-01-3
