Senate Bill S81

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the refusal to work and the disqualification of benefits

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §593, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S357
2017-2018: S2925

2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the refusal to work and the disqualification of benefits.

2015-S81 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

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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