STATE OF NEW YORK
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5667
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to allowing claimants
collecting unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their
unemployment benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 645 of the laws of 1951, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
4 effective days for the purpose of benefit rights only if [he] such
5 claimant has complied with the provisions of this article regarding the
6 filing of [his] the claim, including the filing of a valid original
7 claim, registered as totally unemployed or partially employed pursuant
8 to section five hundred ninety-a of this title, reported [his] such
9 claimant's subsequent employment and unemployment, and reported for work
10 or otherwise given notice of the continuance of [his] such claimant's
11 unemployment.
12 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended by
13 chapter 277 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
14 1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
15 effective weeks for the purpose of benefit rights only if [he] such
16 claimant has complied with the provisions of this article regarding the
17 filing of [his] the claim, including the filing of a valid original
18 claim, registered as totally or partially unemployed pursuant to section
19 five hundred ninety-a of this title, reported [his] such claimant's
20 subsequent employment and unemployment, and reported for work or other-
21 wise given notice of the continuance of [his] such claimant's unemploy-
22 ment.
23 § 3. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 590-a to read as
24 follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 590-a. Reductions in unemployment benefits due to part-time work. 1.
2 Entitlement to benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to
3 the contrary any claimant who accepts part-time work shall be eligible
4 to collect partial unemployment pursuant to this section provided such
5 claimant meets the criteria outlined in this section.
6 2. Reporting part-time employment. A claimant collecting unemployment
7 who is paid for part-time employment while collecting unemployment shall
8 be required to report during each compensable period the amount of money
9 earned from such part-time work.
10 3. Benefit rate. A claimant's unemployment benefit shall be reduced by
11 fifty percent of the part-time income during a compensable period, in a
12 manner determined by the commissioner.
13 4. Penalties for false or inaccurate reporting. The provisions of
14 section five hundred ninety-four of this title shall control should a
15 claimant inaccurately report or fail to report the amount of part-time
16 wages earned during any compensable period.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
19 1 of section 590 of the labor law made by section two of this act shall
20 take effect on the same date and the same manner as section six of chap-
21 ter 277 of the laws of 2021, takes effect. Effective immediately, the
22 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
23 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
24 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
