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Assembly Bill A4894

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that employers may not fire volunteer firefighters and medical services personnel who respond to states of emergency in New York

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2009-A4894 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง207-b, Lab L

2009-A4894 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that employers may not fire volunteer firefighters and medical services personnel who respond to states of emergency in New York.

2009-A4894 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4894

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Labor

AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to enacting the volunteer
  firefighter and emergency medical service personnel job protection act

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "volunteer
firefighter and emergency medical service personnel job protection act".
  S 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 207-b to read as
follows:
  S 207-B. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES  PERSON-
NEL  JOB  PROTECTION.  1. AN EMPLOYER MAY NOT FIRE AN EMPLOYEE WHO, WHEN
ACTING AS A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER OR VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
WORKER, IS RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY WHERE THE PRESIDENT OF THE  UNITED
STATES  OR THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN A COUNTY OF
THE STATE.
  2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  A. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SHALL MEAN A FIREFIGHTER WHO DOES NOT RECEIVE
MONETARY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES TO A FIRE AUTHORITY AND WHO DOES  NOT
WORK FOR ANOTHER FIRE AUTHORITY FOR MONETARY COMPENSATION; AND
  B.  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL  SHALL  MEAN  AN EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN WHO DOES NOT  RECEIVE  MONETARY  COMPENSATION
FOR  SERVICES TO A FIRST RESPONDER AGENCY, AN ORGANIZED RESCUE SQUAD, OR
A COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEM, AND WHO  DOES  NOT  WORK  FOR
ANOTHER RELATED ENTITY FOR MONETARY COMPENSATION.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08046-01-9

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