Bill Text: NY S05296 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires paid sick leave does not count against other paid time off.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05296 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05296-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5296

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring paid sick leave
          does not count against other paid time off

          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 210-b to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 210-b. Use of paid sick leave. 1. For the purposes of this section:
     4    a. "Employee" means any individual who performs services for and under
     5  the control and direction of an employer for wages  or  other  remunera-
     6  tion.
     7    b. "Employer" means any person, firm, partnership, institution, limit-
     8  ed  liability  company,  corporation  or association that employs one or
     9  more employees; and the state, any political  subdivision  thereof,  any
    10  department,  board,  bureau,  division,  commission,  committee,  public
    11  authority, public corporation, council,  office  or  other  governmental
    12  entity  performing  a governmental or proprietary function for the state
    13  or any political subdivision thereof.
    14    c. "Paid sick leave" means the payment of the full wages of an employ-
    15  ee during any period of such employee's absence from his or her  employ-
    16  ment  because  of  illness,  injury, medical condition, need for medical
    17  diagnosis or treatment for  himself,  herself,  or  his  or  her  child,
    18  spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or aunt or uncle.
    19    2.  Paid  sick  leave  taken  by  an  employee  shall  not result in a
    20  reduction of paid time off  for  purposes  other  than  sick  leave.  An
    21  employer  shall  not  reduce  paid time off for purposes other than sick
    22  leave when an employee wishes to use paid sick leave.
    23    § 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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