Bill Text: NY S08748 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8748 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to written notice requirements for mass layoffs; includes a requirement to notify all localities in the state where the employer remitted taxes in the current or previous year and each locality that provides police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services to real property where the employer has a place of business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-11 - approval memo.14 [S08748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08748-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8748

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 13, 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  written  notice  require-
          ments for mass layoffs

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 860-b of the labor law,  as  added
     2  by chapter 475 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or employment
     4  loss, unless, at least ninety days before the order  takes  effect,  the
     5  employer gives written notice of the order to the following:
     6    (a) affected employees and the representatives of affected employees;
     7    (b) the department; [and]
     8    (c)  the local workforce investment boards established pursuant to the
     9  federal Workforce Investment Act (P.L.  105-220)  for  the  locality  in
    10  which the mass layoff, relocation, or employment loss will occur;
    11    (d)  the  chief elected official of the unit or units of local govern-
    12  ment and the school district or districts  in  which  the  mass  layoff,
    13  relocation or employment loss will occur; and
    14    (e)  each  locality  which  provides  police,  firefighting, emergency
    15  medical or ambulance services or other emergency services to the site of
    16  employment subject to the mass layoff, relocation, or  employment  loss,
    17  as applicable.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14822-05-0