Requires employers to offer paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day, except for emergency or critical employees, who shall be offered another day of paid leave.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A10427
SPONSOR: Rules (Septimo) TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
offer paid leave to veteran employees on Veterans' day
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring public employers
to guarantee a paid leave of absence for public employees who are Veter-
ans on Veterans Day
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends labor law to require that public employers guarantee a
leave of absence on veterans day for public employees who are Veterans.
Section 2 establishes that the act shall take effect immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
Over 675, 000 veterans call New York State home, many of whom partic-
ipate in the workforce,
Since 1954, Veterans Day has been a federal holiday in the United
States, in which many individuals, whether Veterans or not, are excused
from work, having their place of work closed on this day. There are,
however, many public employees who, depending upon the nature of their
work, work a job that doesn't allow for their office to close in obser-
vance of Veterans Day. Although these employees are often compensated
with incentives such as overtime pay, Veterans employed in these jobs
aren't guaranteed the choice to observe the holiday meant to honor them
.
Veterans Day is meant to honor these individuals and the incredible
sacrifices that they have made on our country' s behalf by serving in
the military. Every veteran continuing to serve this country by working
in a public job should have the choice to observe Veterans Day if they
wish to do so.
This bill would require public employers to allow employees who are
veterans the option to observe Veterans Day, unless they are designated
as a critical employee in which they would be entitled to a leave of
absence on another day in lieu of Veterans Day.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill 2024
FISCAL IMPLILICATIONS: To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
The act shall take effect immediately after it shall have become a law,
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10427
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Septimo) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
offer paid leave to veteran employees on Veterans' day
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 219-e to
2 read as follows:
3 § 219-e. Leave of absence for veterans on Veterans' day. Every employ-
4 er in this state shall offer a leave of absence with pay for twenty-four
5 hours on the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day, to every
6 employee who is a veteran, as defined by subdivision three of section
7 one of the veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other
8 than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, except where such
9 action would endanger the public safety or such employer has designated
10 such employee as a critical employee, in which event such person shall
11 be entitled to leave of absence with pay on another day in lieu thereof.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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