Bill Text: NY S09087 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits public employers from taking retaliatory adverse personnel actions against employees who use sick leave or compensatory time to quarantine, seek medical treatment, or for other absences related to COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-09 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09087 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S09087-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9087

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 9, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to prohibiting public
          employers from retaliating against employees for absences  related  to
          COVID-19

          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 75-b of the civil service  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (b) to read as follows:
     3    (b)  A public employer shall not dismiss or take other disciplinary or
     4  other adverse personnel action against a public employee  regarding  the
     5  employee's employment, including designating the employee as chronically
     6  absent,  because  the  employee  uses sick leave or compensatory time to
     7  quarantine, convalesce, seek  medical  treatment,  or  engage  in  other
     8  activities related to a COVID-19 diagnosis or contact.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    10  have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2020.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17548-02-0