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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5678 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to benefits of shared work programs 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 607 of the labor law, as amended 2 by section 23 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 1. Amount. An eligible claimant shall be paid benefits for any week 5 equal to his or her benefit rate multiplied by the percentage of 6 reduction of his or her wages resulting from reduced hours of work, but 7 only if such percentage is no less than twenty percent. The weekly bene- 8 fit amount shall be rounded off to the nearest dollar. A claimant shall 9 not be paid such benefits in excess of twenty-six [weeks] times the 10 amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) paya- 11 ble to such individual for a week of total unemployment during a benefit 12 year. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09364-01-1