Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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244
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
provide paid sick leave to employees following a miscarriage or still-
birth
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 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. In addition to any other requirements of this section, every
4 employer shall be required to provide each employee with the equivalent
5 number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick
6 leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.
7 § 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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