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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S81
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) 60th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §593, Lab L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S357
2017-2018: S2925
2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S81 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the labor law, in relation to disqualification for benefits and refusal of employment PURPOSE : This act would require a claimant of unemployment to accept any employment proffered that such claimant is capable of performing, provided that this employment would result in a wage not less than the wage such claimant received in his or her high calendar quarter of the base period. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section one requires a claimant of unemployment to accept any employment proffered that such claimant is capable of performing, provided that this employment would result in a wage not less than the wage such claimant received in his or her high calendar quarter of the base period. Claimants are provided with the ability to refuse such employment with good cause if the hours or working conditions offered are substantively less favorable to the claimant than those prevailing for similar work in the locality, or are such that tend to depress working conditions. EXISTING LAW : A claimant may turn down employment that is equal to or greater than eighty percent of the wage such claimant received in his or her high calendar quarter of the base period if such wage is
2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 81 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 disqualification for bene- fits and refusal of employment THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 593 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 415 of the laws of 1983, the opening paragraph as amended by section 15 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, paragraph (a) as added by chapter 589 of the laws of 1998 and paragraphs (d) and (e) as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 2. Refusal of employment. No days of total unemployment shall be deemed to occur beginning with the day on which a claimant, without good cause, refuses to accept an offer of employment for which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience, including employment not subject to this article, until he or she has subsequently worked in employment and earned remuneration at least equal to ten times his or her weekly benefit rate. Except that claimants who are not subject to a recall date or who do not obtain employment through a union hiring hall and who are still unemployed after receiving ten weeks of benefits shall be required to accept any employment proffered that such claimants are capable of performing, provided that such employment would result in a wage not less than SUCH CLAIMANT'S HIGH CALENDAR QUARTER WAGES RECEIVED IN THE BASE PERIOD; OR WOULD RESULT IN A WAGE GREATER THAN eighty percent of such claimant's high calendar quarter wages received in the base period and not substantially less than the prevailing wage for similar work in the locality as provided for in paragraph (d) of this subdivision. No refusal to accept employment shall be deemed without EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01292-01-5
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