Allows a part-time employee to be eligible for unemployment insurance if such claimant earns an annual salary or remuneration equal to or less than fifteen thousand dollars for such part-time employment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7416
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 6, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing unemployment
insurance benefits to certain part-time claimants
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 591 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Unemployment. Benefits, except as provided in section five hundred
4 ninety-one-a of this title, shall be paid only to a claimant who is
5 totally unemployed and who is unable to engage in his or her usual
6 employment or in any other for which he or she is reasonably fitted by
7 training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
8 article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision
9 or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
10 on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States or because
11 of such claimant's service as a part-time employee, who by such service
12 earns an annual salary or remuneration equal to or less than fifteen
13 thousand dollars.
14 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended by
15 chapter 446 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
16 1. Unemployment. Benefits shall be paid only to a claimant who is
17 totally unemployed and who is unable to engage in his or her usual
18 employment or in any other for which he or she is reasonably fitted by
19 training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
20 article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision
21 or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
22 on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States or because
23 of such claimant's service as a part-time employee, who by such service
24 earns an annual salary or remuneration equal to or less than fifteen
25 thousand dollars.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
2 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments made
3 to subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law made by section one of
4 this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdi-
5 vision pursuant to section 10 of chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, as
6 amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act
7 shall take effect.