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Assembly Bill A9159

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave

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2025-A9159 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §196-b, Lab L

2025-A9159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an employer to provide sick leave to an employee who telecommutes at the same rate and under the same conditions that an employee present at the employer's work site would accrue it.

2025-A9159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9159
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. CARROLL  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eligibility for paid  sick
   leave
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 196-b of the labor law is  amended
 by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
   C.  AN  EMPLOYER  MAY  NOT  EXCLUDE EMPLOYEES WHO TELECOMMUTE FROM THE
 PROVISIONS OF THE SICK LEAVE POLICY ESTABLISHED  BY  SUCH  EMPLOYER  FOR
 EMPLOYEES WHO PHYSICALLY COMMUTE TO THE EMPLOYER'S WORK SITE. AN EMPLOY-
 EE  WHO  TELECOMMUTES SHALL ACCRUE SICK LEAVE AT THE SAME RATE AND UNDER
 THE SAME CONDITIONS THAT A COMPARABLE EMPLOYEE PRESENT AT THE EMPLOYER'S
 WORK SITE WOULD ACCRUE IT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law  and shall apply to the accrual of paid sick leave on and after such
 effective date. 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.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13851-01-5

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