Assembly Bill A5667

                             
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                                   5667
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  claimants
   collecting  unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their
   unemployment benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
 by chapter 645 of the laws of 1951, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
 effective days for the purpose of  benefit  rights  only  if  [he]  SUCH
 CLAIMANT  has complied with the provisions of this article regarding the
 filing of [his] THE claim, including the  filing  of  a  valid  original
 claim,  registered  as totally unemployed OR PARTIALLY EMPLOYED PURSUANT
 TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-A OF  THIS  TITLE,  reported  [his]  SUCH
 CLAIMANT'S subsequent employment and unemployment, and reported for work
 or  otherwise  given  notice of the continuance of [his] SUCH CLAIMANT'S
 unemployment.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 590 of the  labor  law,  as  amended  by
 chapter 277 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
 effective  weeks  for  the  purpose  of benefit rights only if [he] SUCH
 CLAIMANT has complied with the provisions of this article regarding  the
 filing  of  [his]  THE  claim,  including the filing of a valid original
 claim, registered as totally or partially unemployed PURSUANT TO SECTION
 FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-A OF THIS  TITLE,  reported  [his]  SUCH  CLAIMANT'S
 subsequent  employment and unemployment, and reported for work or other-
 wise given notice of the continuance of [his] SUCH CLAIMANT'S  unemploy-
 ment.
   § 3. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 590-a to read as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 590-A. REDUCTIONS IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DUE TO PART-TIME WORK. 1.
 ENTITLEMENT  TO  BENEFITS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO
 THE CONTRARY ANY CLAIMANT WHO ACCEPTS PART-TIME WORK SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE
 TO  COLLECT  PARTIAL UNEMPLOYMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION PROVIDED SUCH
 CLAIMANT MEETS THE CRITERIA OUTLINED IN THIS SECTION.
   2. REPORTING PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT.  A CLAIMANT COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT
 WHO IS PAID FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WHILE COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT SHALL
 BE REQUIRED TO REPORT DURING EACH COMPENSABLE PERIOD THE AMOUNT OF MONEY
 EARNED FROM SUCH PART-TIME WORK.
   3. BENEFIT RATE. A CLAIMANT'S UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SHALL BE REDUCED BY
 FIFTY  PERCENT OF THE PART-TIME INCOME DURING A COMPENSABLE PERIOD, IN A
 MANNER DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   4. PENALTIES FOR FALSE OR  INACCURATE  REPORTING.  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 SECTION  FIVE  HUNDRED  NINETY-FOUR OF THIS TITLE SHALL CONTROL SHOULD A
 CLAIMANT INACCURATELY REPORT OR FAIL TO REPORT THE AMOUNT  OF  PART-TIME
 WAGES EARNED DURING ANY COMPENSABLE PERIOD.
   §  4.    This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 1 of section 590 of the labor law made by section two of this act  shall
 take effect on the same date and the same manner as section six of chap-
 ter  277  of  the laws of 2021, takes effect. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.