Bill Text: NY A04727 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - referred to labor [A04727 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04727-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4727

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRONSON, HUNTER, SHIMSKY, TAPIA, HEVESI, LEVEN-
          BERG, McMAHON, JACOBSON, DAVILA, COLTON -- read once and  referred  to
          the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to extending
          paid family leave benefits

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

     1    Section 1. Section 203 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
     2  section  3  of  part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 203. Employees eligible for benefits under section two hundred  four
     5  of  this article. Employees in employment of a covered employer for four
     6  or more consecutive weeks and employees in employment  during  the  work
     7  period usual to and available during such four or more consecutive weeks
     8  in  any  trade  or  business in which they are regularly employed and in
     9  which hiring from day to day of such employees is the  usual  employment
    10  practice  shall  be  eligible  for  disability  benefits  as provided in
    11  section two hundred four of this article.  Employees in employment of  a
    12  covered  employer for twenty-six or more consecutive weeks and employees
    13  in employment during the work period usual to and available during  such
    14  twenty-six  or  more consecutive weeks in any trade or business in which
    15  they are regularly employed and in which hiring from day to day of  such
    16  employees  is the usual employment practice shall be eligible for family
    17  leave benefits as provided in section two hundred four of this  article.
    18  For  purposes of this article, employees who perform construction, demo-
    19  lition,  reconstruction,  excavation,  rehabilitation,  repairs,   reno-
    20  vations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to
    21  a  collective  bargaining  agreement  shall be eligible for family leave
    22  benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thir-
    23  ty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective
    24  bargaining agreement. Every such employee shall continue to be  eligible

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00216-01-5
        A. 4727                             2

     1  for  family leave benefits only during employment with a covered employ-
     2  er. Every such employee shall continue to  be  eligible  for  disability
     3  benefits  during  such  employment  and for a period of four weeks after
     4  such  employment  terminates regardless of whether the employee performs
     5  any work for remuneration or profit in non-covered employment. If during
     6  such four week period the employee performs any work for remuneration or
     7  profit for another covered employer the employee shall  become  eligible
     8  for  disability benefits immediately with respect to that employment. In
     9  addition every such employee who has previously completed four  or  more
    10  consecutive  weeks  in employment with the covered employer for purposes
    11  of disability benefits, or  twenty-six  or  more  consecutive  weeks  in
    12  employment  with the covered employer for purposes of paid family leave,
    13  and returns to work with the same employer after an agreed and specified
    14  unpaid leave of absence or vacation without pay  shall  become  eligible
    15  for  benefits immediately with respect to such employment.  For purposes
    16  of this article, employees who perform construction, demolition,  recon-
    17  struction,  excavation,  rehabilitation,  repairs,  renovations,  alter-
    18  ations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a  collective
    19  bargaining agreement and who became eligible for paid family leave bene-
    20  fits  by  working at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks, and
    21  who return to work after an agreed and specified unpaid leave of absence
    22  or vacation without pay with the same or different employer shall become
    23  eligible for family leave benefits  immediately  with  respect  to  such
    24  employment.  In  the case of employees who perform construction, demoli-
    25  tion, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs,  renovations,
    26  alterations,  or  improvements  for  multiple  employers  pursuant  to a
    27  collective bargaining agreement who are laid-off and  receive  unemploy-
    28  ment  benefits,  such employees shall be eligible for family leave bene-
    29  fits upon returning to work if they are otherwise  qualified  by  having
    30  worked  at  least  twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks. An employee
    31  who during a period in which [he or she] such employee  is  eligible  to
    32  receive  benefits  under subdivision two of section two hundred seven of
    33  this article returns to  employment  with  a  covered  employer  and  an
    34  employee  who  is currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits or
    35  benefits under section two hundred seven of this article and who returns
    36  to employment with a covered employer shall become eligible for disabil-
    37  ity benefits immediately with respect to such employment.   An  employee
    38  regularly in the employment of a single employer on a work schedule less
    39  than the employer's normal work week shall become eligible for disabili-
    40  ty leave benefits on the twenty-fifth day of such regular employment and
    41  for  purposes of paid family leave an employer shall become eligible for
    42  benefits on the one hundred seventy-fifth day of  such  regular  employ-
    43  ment.  An employee who is eligible for disability and family leave bene-
    44  fits in the employment of a covered employer shall not  be  deemed,  for
    45  the  purposes of this article, to have such employment terminated during
    46  any period [he or she] such employee is  eligible  to  receive  benefits
    47  under  section  two  hundred  four  of this article with respect to such
    48  employment.
    49    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.