Provides that spouses who voluntarily separate from employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military transfer shall be eligible for unemployment benefits.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4158
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, ABBATE, SKOUFIS, GOTTFRIED, SCHIM-
MINGER, COLTON, CAHILL, TENNEY, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. BUCHWALD, CERETTO, COOK, DAVILA, DenDEKKER, GIGLIO, HIKIND,
MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA, ROBINSON, SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the eligibility for unem-
ployment benefits for individuals who voluntarily separate from
employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military
transfer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 593 of the labor
2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read as follows:
3 (iv) where the spouse of the individual is a member of the armed forc-
4 es of the United States, the need for the individual to accompany such
5 individual's spouse (A) to a place from which it is impractical for such
6 individual to commute and (B) due to a change in location as a result of
7 a military transfer of the spouse.
8 § 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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