Bill Text: NY A02457 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-7)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A02457 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02457-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2457

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
          provide paid sick leave to employees following a miscarriage or still-
          birth

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 196-b of the labor law is amended by adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  In  addition  to  any  other requirements of this section, every
     4  employer shall be required to provide each employee with the  equivalent
     5  number  of  hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick
     6  leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03235-01-3