STATE OF NEW YORK
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2503
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to paid fami-
ly leave for public employees not represented by an employee organiza-
tion
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 212-b of the workers' compensation
2 law, as added by section 14 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of
3 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 3. (a) An employee organization may, pursuant to collective bargain-
5 ing, opt in to paid family leave benefits on behalf of those public
6 employees it is either certified or recognized to represent, within the
7 meaning of article fourteen of the civil service law. Nothing in this
8 section shall prohibit an agreement to opt in to paid family leave
9 between the employee organization and any public employer. An employee
10 organization that has opted in to paid family leave benefits may, pursu-
11 ant to collective bargaining, opt out of it as is mutually agreed upon
12 between the employee organization and any public employer.
13 [b.] (b) For public employees who are not represented by an employee
14 organization, the public employer [may opt-in to paid family leave bene-
15 fits within ninety days notice to such public employees. Following opt-
16 in by a public employer for public employees not represented by an
17 employee organization, the public employer may opt-out of paid family
18 leave benefits with twelve months notice to those public employees]
19 shall provide paid family leave benefits in accordance with the
20 provisions of section two hundred four and two hundred eight of this
21 article.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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