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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2074
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 19, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        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