Authorizes certain employees who return to work at a position or job which pays less than the amount such employee received from unemployment insurance to receive a partial or reduced unemployment benefit in addition to such wages to equal the benefit amount such employee received prior to returning to work.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6771
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 14, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to authorize certain employees to receive a partial or reduced
unemployment benefit in addition to wages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. a. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
2 and for the purpose of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, any employee
3 who receives payments pursuant to article 18 of the labor law for unem-
4 ployment claims made on or after March 9, 2020 through the duration of
5 the state disaster emergency declared by executive order number 202 of
6 2020 and any further amendments or modifications thereto, who accepts an
7 offer of employment and returns to work in a position or job title that
8 pays less than the existing unemployment insurance benefit, including
9 supplemental federal unemployment insurance payments, shall be eligible
10 to collect a partial or reduced unemployment benefit that, when added to
11 the salary or wages paid to the employee for the position or job such
12 employee accepted and returned to work to perform, equates to such
13 amount that will make such employee's combined salary or wages and
14 partial unemployment benefit equal to the benefit such employee received
15 from unemployment insurance before returning to work.
16 b. For the purposes of this section, the supplemental federal unem-
17 ployment insurance benefit referenced herein shall be defined as all
18 payments received by the claimant for unemployment insurance that are in
19 addition to the standard benefit provided pursuant to article 18 of the
20 labor law, including but not limited to the Pandemic Unemployment Insur-
21 ance Act, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Pandemic Unem-
22 ployment Compensation and any other extended, supplemental or emergency
23 unemployment benefit as provided by federal law.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11413-01-1
