Prohibits public employers from taking retaliatory adverse personnel actions against employees who use sick leave or compensatory time to quarantine, seek medical treatment, or for other absences related to COVID-19.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4201--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to prohibiting public
employers from retaliating against employees for absences related to
COVID-19
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 159-c to read as follows:
3 § 159-c. Prohibition of retaliation for use of sick leave due to
4 COVID-19; public employers. A public employer shall not dismiss or take
5 other disciplinary or other adverse personnel action against a public
6 employee regarding the employee's employment, including designating the
7 employee as chronically absent, because the employee uses sick leave or
8 compensatory time to quarantine, convalesce, seek medical treatment, or
9 engage in other activities related to a COVID-19 diagnosis or contact.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
11 have been in full force and effect on and after March 1, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08048-02-1
