Requires employers to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee who has not been scheduled or offered work hours in the past seven days or offered work for the next seven day period.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1077
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, BIAGGI, BROOKS, GAUGHRAN, LIU, RIVERA --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to notice of eligibility for
unemployment benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 590 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 2 to read as follows:
3 2. Notice of eligibility. An employer shall be required to provide a
4 written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any
5 employee who has not been scheduled or offered work hours in the past
6 seven days and has not been scheduled or offered work hours for the next
7 seven day period. Written notice will not be required if an employee is
8 eligible for or has submitted a request for leave-of-absence, vacation
9 leave, bereavement leave, parental leave, personal leave, or any other
10 form of paid or unpaid leave established by the employer or documented
11 in writing or submitted online.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03207-01-1
