STATE OF NEW YORK
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2074
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to written notice require-
ments for mass layoffs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 860-b of the labor law, as amended
2 by a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law relating to
3 written notice requirements for mass layoffs, as proposed in legislative
4 bills numbers S. 8748 and A. 10674-A, is amended to read as follows:
5 1. An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or employment
6 loss, unless, at least ninety days before the order takes effect, the
7 employer gives written notice of the order to the following:
8 (a) affected employees and the representatives of affected employees;
9 (b) the department;
10 (c) the local workforce investment boards established pursuant to the
11 federal Workforce Investment Act (P.L. 105-220) for the locality [in] of
12 the site of employment at which the mass layoff, relocation, or employ-
13 ment loss will occur;
14 (d) the chief elected official of the unit or units of local govern-
15 ment and the school district or districts [in] for the locality of the
16 site of employment at which the mass layoff, relocation or employment
17 loss will occur; and
18 (e) each locality which provides police, firefighting, emergency
19 medical or ambulance services or other emergency services to the site of
20 employment [subject to the] within which such mass layoff, relocation,
21 or employment loss will occur, as applicable.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
23 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law relating
24 to written notice requirements for mass layoffs, as proposed in legisla-
25 tive bills numbers S. 8748 and A. 10674-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07133-01-1
