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Senate Bill S6835

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Allows certain part-time employees to be eligible for unemployment insurance

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2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7416
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง591, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2831

2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a part-time employee to be eligible for unemployment insurance if such claimant earns an annual salary or remuneration equal to or less than fifteen thousand dollars for such part-time employment.

2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6835

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 12, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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  providing  unemployment
  insurance benefits to certain part-time claimants

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law,  as  amended
by chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  Unemployment. Benefits, except as provided in section five hundred
ninety-one-a of this title, shall be paid only  to  a  claimant  who  is
totally  unemployed  and  who  is  unable  to engage in his OR HER usual
employment or in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably  fitted  by
training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
article  shall  not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision
or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE
OF SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH  SERVICE
EARNS  AN  ANNUAL  SALARY  OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN FIFTEEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the  labor  law,  as  amended  by
chapter 446 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  Unemployment.  Benefits  shall  be  paid only to a claimant who is
totally unemployed and who is unable to  engage  in  his  OR  HER  usual
employment  or  in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably fitted by
training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to  this  subdivision
or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE
OF  SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH SERVICE
EARNS AN ANNUAL SALARY OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO  OR  LESS  THAN  FIFTEEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it  shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments made
to subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law made by section one  of

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

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