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S01668 Summary:

BILL NO	S01668
SAME AS	SAME AS A02752
SPONSOR	ADDABBO
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §212-b, Work Comp L
Requires public employers who opt out of providing paid family leave benefits to provide parental leave in the alternative at the same pay rate and amount of time as paid family leave.

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S01668 Actions:

BILL NO	S01668
01/13/2023	REFERRED TO LABOR
01/03/2024	REFERRED TO LABOR

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S01668 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1668
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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  requiring
          public  employers  who opt out of providing paid family leave benefits
          to provide parental leave in the alternative

          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 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the contrary, if a
     4  public employer chooses to opt out of paid family leave benefits  pursu-
     5  ant  to paragraph b of this subdivision, then such public employer shall
     6  be required to offer parental leave to its employees for a period not to
     7  exceed twelve weeks during any fifty-two week calendar period. Employers
     8  shall pay employees on parental leave a rate of sixty-seven  percent  of
     9  the  employee's  average  weekly  wage  but shall not exceed sixty-seven
    10  percent of the New York state average weekly wage in effect.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04645-01-3

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