Excludes claims for unemployment insurance arising as a result of an employer closing his or her business because of novel coronavirus COVID-19, from an employer's experience rating charges.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4749
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to excluding claims for unem-
ployment insurance arising as a result of an employer closing his or
her business because of novel coronavirus COVID-19, from an employer's
experience rating charges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 581 of the labor
2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 7 to read as follows:
3 (7) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employer whose
4 employees receive payments under this article and whose claims for unem-
5 ployment insurance arise as a result of the closure of an employer for
6 any reason related to novel coronavirus, COVID-19, or as a result of a
7 mandatory order of a government entity to close such employer, shall not
8 have included in their experience rating charges the amounts so paid on
9 account.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04716-01-1
