Bill Text: NY S06771 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain employees who return to work at a position or job which pays less than the amount such employee received from unemployment insurance to receive a partial or reduced unemployment benefit in addition to such wages to equal the benefit amount such employee received prior to returning to work.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S06771 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06771-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6771

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2021
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to authorize certain employees to receive a  partial  or  reduced
          unemployment benefit in addition to wages

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. a. Notwithstanding any provision of law  to  the  contrary,
     2  and for the purpose of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, any employee
     3  who  receives payments pursuant to article 18 of the labor law for unem-
     4  ployment claims made on or after March 9, 2020 through the  duration  of
     5  the  state  disaster emergency declared by executive order number 202 of
     6  2020 and any further amendments or modifications thereto, who accepts an
     7  offer of employment and returns to work in a position or job title  that
     8  pays  less  than  the existing unemployment insurance benefit, including
     9  supplemental federal unemployment insurance payments, shall be  eligible
    10  to collect a partial or reduced unemployment benefit that, when added to
    11  the  salary  or  wages paid to the employee for the position or job such
    12  employee accepted and returned to  work  to  perform,  equates  to  such
    13  amount  that  will  make  such  employee's  combined salary or wages and
    14  partial unemployment benefit equal to the benefit such employee received
    15  from unemployment insurance before returning to work.
    16    b. For the purposes of this section, the  supplemental  federal  unem-
    17  ployment  insurance  benefit  referenced  herein shall be defined as all
    18  payments received by the claimant for unemployment insurance that are in
    19  addition to the standard benefit provided pursuant to article 18 of  the
    20  labor law, including but not limited to the Pandemic Unemployment Insur-
    21  ance  Act,  Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Pandemic Unem-
    22  ployment Compensation and any other extended, supplemental or  emergency
    23  unemployment benefit as provided by federal law.
    24    § 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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