Defines temporary total disability as the injured employee's inability to perform his or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered by the employer that is consistent with the employee's disability.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6707
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, JACOBSON, REYES -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to defining
temporary total disability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 15 of the workers' compensation
2 law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 2. Temporary total disability. In case of temporary total disability,
5 which shall consist of the injured employee's inability to perform his
6 or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered
7 by the employer that is consistent with the employee's disability,
8 sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages shall be
9 paid to the employee during the continuance thereof, except as otherwise
10 provided in this chapter.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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