Bill Text: NY S08692 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to increasing the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss including mass layoffs, relocations or other employment loss.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - referred to labor [S08692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08692-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8692

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 8, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  increasing  the  maximum
          time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain
          employees who experience employment loss

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 860-g of the labor law,  as  added
     2  by chapter 475 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  Back  pay and other liability under this section is calculated for
     4  the period of the employer's violation, [up to a maximum of sixty days,]
     5  or one-half the number of days that the employee  was  employed  by  the
     6  employer, whichever period is smaller.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15237-02-0