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Senate Bill S898

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Directs the department of labor to study the impact of long COVID on employees and on the labor market

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2023-S898 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor

2023-S898 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of labor to study the impact of long COVID on employees and on the labor market; directs the department of labor to issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate and to publish such report on its website within one year.

2023-S898 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S898 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    898
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the department of  labor  to  study  the
   impact of long COVID on employees and on the labor market
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1.  As used in this section, the following terms shall have
 the following definitions:
   a. "long COVID" means symptoms that persist after the  acute  COVID-19
 infection has resolved.
   b.  "labor organizations" means any labor union or any organization of
 any kind, or any agency or employee  representation  committee,  associ-
 ation,  group  or  plan, in which employees participate and which exists
 for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concern-
 ing grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment
 or conditions of work.
   2. The department of labor, in consultation with the division of human
 rights, the state comptroller and the department of taxation and finance
 is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a comprehensive  study  for
 the  purpose  of  monitoring the long-term labor impacts of the COVID-19
 virus. The purpose of the study shall be to:
   a. identify the number of full-time equivalent workers  currently  not
 working  due to long COVID, including those working at reduced hours and
 the cost to the state of these absences;
   b. identify the average amount of time off or reduced hours for people
 with long COVID;
   c. identify whether and to what extent discrimination and other barri-
 ers affect the employment rate for persons with long COVID;
   d. provide specific data and analysis on the findings from  paragraphs
 a,  b  and  c  of  this  subdivision  as such findings relate to racial,
 gender, ethnic and sexual orientation characteristics;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03664-01-3

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