| NY | S06602 | Engross
50% | Relates to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations by members of the organized militia; provides that members of the organized militia shall qualify as employees for the purposes of making a claim under the workers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S06929 | Engross
50% | Allows for treatment costing less than $1,500 to be done without prior approval, and more clearly defines the list of "pre-authorized procedures" as a floor on treatment as opposed to its current status as a ceiling; allows non-network providers of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S08735 | Engross
50% | Establishes protections for minors who are featured in influencer-generated content that generate earnings from being shared on social media or other video-sharing websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | S04361 | Engross
50% | Relates to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform employees about non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S07838 | Engross
50% | Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S08783 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of labor create and maintain a list of available careers and job openings for veterans in the state of New York and provide such list to the department of veterans' services; requires such list to be placed on the department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S07096 | Engross
50% | Relates to awards to employees who prevail in actions on kick-back claims; provides that such employees shall be entitled to the full amount of what was received, liquidated damages, attorney's fees and prejudgment interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S04973 | Engross
50% | Amends provisions relating to payment of wages to include compensation that is not payable solely at the employer's discretion; requires certain notices; expands enforcement provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A00312 | Intro
25% | Establishes protections for minors who are featured in influencer-generated content that generate earnings from being shared on social media or other video-sharing websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
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| NY | A08986 | Intro
25% | Establishes the "no severance ultimatums act", which prevents employers from giving coercive ultimatums to employees or former employees relating to such employee's severance from employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
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| NY | A01959 | Intro
25% | Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
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| NY | S07886 | Engross
50% | Empowers the commissioner of labor to issue stop-work orders against employers for misclassification of employees as independent contractors or for providing false, incomplete, or misleading information to an insurance company on the number of employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S08601 | Engross
50% | Prohibits fingerprinting or mandatory iris and retina scanning of employees; makes related provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | A10509 | Intro
25% | Removes residential dwelling units that must be affordable to residents at a specific income level from the definition of "construction contracts" for the purposes of certain provisions of the General Business Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S07500 | Engross
50% | Directs the department of financial services to conduct a comprehensive study on how the department of financial services may create a compensation system commensurate with the compensation systems of similar federal financial regulators and to issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
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| NY | A10427 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
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| NY | S08323 | Engross
50% | Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence or an attempt to improperly influence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | S02477 | Engross
50% | Provides for the registration and duties of model management companies; provides complaint procedures and penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
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| NY | S03571 | Engross
50% | Includes Stewart International Airport in the definition of covered airport location for the purposes of minimum wage rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | S08344 | Engross
50% | Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | A10250 | Intro
25% | Simplifies the procedure by which injured workers obtain treatment for injuries covered by the workers' compensation law; provides that the list of pre-authorized procedures is to be used only as a list of treatment that does not require insurance ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| NY | A09635 | Intro
25% | Expands the definition of "family leave" to include persons recovering from the unintended intrauterine death of a fetus that occurs after the clinical estimate of the twentieth week of gestation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| NY | A09106 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the commissioner of labor and the workers' compensation board to issue stop-work orders; establishes procedure for the issuance of such orders; establishes penalties for failure to comply with such orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| NY | S01860 | Engross
50% | Directs the commissioner of labor to create and distribute to employers written materials regarding mental health services and resources available to employees to be posted in the workplace; directs voluntary guidance for employers to put in place st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | S00099 | Engross
50% | Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
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| NY | A10124 | Intro
25% | Provides protections for telecommunications tower technicians, including requiring certain trainings during work hours without a loss of pay; requires certain reporting by bidders for telecommunication contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-06
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| NY | A09796 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
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| NY | A10086 | Intro
25% | Establishes radon measurement license and radon mitigation license requirements; defines terms; establishes powers and duties of the department of labor and of licensees with regards to such licenses; establishes penalties; establishes the radon miti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
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| NY | A09984 | Intro
25% | Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A09930 | Intro
25% | Relates to employee petitions to participate in a shared work program and to employer responses to such petitions; requires such petitions to be submitted to the commissioner of labor and to be made available for public access on the department of la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
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| NY | A09958 | Intro
25% | Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
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| NY | A09880 | Intro
25% | Requires that notice of initial determinations for unemployment benefits be provided to claimants within 30 days of such claimant furnishing all necessary documentation, and if the commissioner is unable to issue a determination within such time fram...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
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| NY | A05642 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "standing is tiring (sit) act"; requires employers to provide suitable seats to all employees where the nature of such employees' work reasonably permits seated work; prohibits employers from artificially designing a work space to require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
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| NY | S06646 | Engross
50% | Requires the commissioner of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | S06651 | Engross
50% | Includes coverage of treatment rendered by a massage therapist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A09804 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| NY | A07976 | Intro
25% | Prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for confronting an individual to prevent a theft or the unlawful taking of goods, wares, or merchandise; does not prohibit employers from training or re-training employees on policies against con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| NY | A09800 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the statutory damages available for certain wage violations are not punitive in nature and are designed to be liquidated damages rather than penalties or to compensate workers for the employer's failure to prevent wage theft and for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| NY | S03117 | Engross
50% | Includes Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases as occupational diseases for purposes of workers' compensation; clarifies that disability includes disability caused by Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases; requires insurance coverage of long...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| NY | S06551 | Engross
50% | Relates to an individual's right to request a hearing regarding an unemployment insurance benefits claim; provides such a hearing can be requested if benefits or a written notice of determination denying their claim are not received within thirty day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| NY | S02976 | Engross
50% | Requires that notice of initial determinations for unemployment benefits be provided to claimants within 30 days of such claimant furnishing all necessary documentation, and if the commissioner is unable to issue a determination within such time fram...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
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| NY | A09639 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "parental involvement leave act" requiring employers to grant employees up to 24 hours leave during any school year to attend school conferences or classroom activities related to the employee's child if the conference or activity cannot b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| NY | A09560 | Intro
25% | Relates to family leave; includes being called to active duty within the contiguous United States, Hawaii, Alaska, or any other U.S. territory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A09568 | Intro
25% | Allows a parent who suffers an involuntary loss of pregnancy to automatically receive temporary disability benefits upon notice that such parents suffered an involuntary loss of pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A09459 | Intro
25% | Provides that recovery of wages due to a clerical error by the employer or vendor of the employer is prohibited if such clerical error did not result in an overpayment or other inaccuracy in the amount of wages paid or the time in which wages were di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| NY | A06108 | Intro
25% | Provides that an employee shall not be required to request reinstatement in order to file a discrimination claim regarding paid family medical leave benefits; permits a private right of action for certain violations as an alternative to a workers' co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| NY | S01027 | Engross
50% | Provides that an employee shall not be required to request reinstatement in order to file a discrimination claim regarding paid family medical leave benefits; permits a private right of action for certain violations as an alternative to a workers' co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| NY | S06476 | Engross
50% | Directs state agencies to submit reports detailing their telework policies; permits input from employees anonymously; directs the department of civil service to compile reports and submit a single report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A03725 | Intro
25% | Directs state agencies to submit reports detailing their telework policies; permits input from employees anonymously; directs the department of civil service to compile reports and submit a single report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Assembly Labor Committee |
| NY | A09355 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to report certain employees' wages for the purposes of unemployment benefits; relates to the payment of unemployment benefits, and employer penalties for non-compliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
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