Provides that, for purposes of the unemployment insurance law, the entity which pays an individual shall be the employer even if the work or services are performed for a different entity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6469
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 12, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- (at request of the Department of Labor) --
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 the definition of employer
for purposes of the unemployment insurance law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 512 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Whenever the commissioner determines that services performed by an
4 individual constitute employment but the supervision, direction and
5 control are exercised by one or more entities, and one entity places the
6 individual with, or provides the individual to, another entity to
7 perform the services, the entity that pays the individual for the
8 services shall be the employer under this article unless by contract the
9 individual is specified to be the employee of another entity, in which
10 case the other entity shall be the employer. Whenever such employer is
11 replaced by another entity such replacement shall be considered a trans-
12 fer pursuant to section five hundred eighty-one of this article. This
13 subdivision shall not apply to a payroll agency that the commissioner
14 determines provides payroll services on behalf of another employer.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
16 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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