This bill (A 9571) increases family leave benefits under New York's workers' compensation law, directly affecting eligible employees taking leave for medical care, bonding with a newborn, or military family exigencies. It gradually raises weekly benefit percentages (from 50% to 67% of average weekly wage) and extends maximum leave duration (from 8 to 12 weeks) over time, with specific phased-in dates starting in 2018. Covered employers must provide these enhanced benefits while maintaining health insurance coverage during leave. The changes apply to employees meeting eligibility criteria under the law, with the Superintendent of Financial Services retaining limited authority to delay increases.
Allows an employee to use paid sick leave for bereavement upon the death of a family member, or upon pregnancy loss by the employee or the employee's spouse or domestic partner or upon a foster child leaving a foster family provided the foster child was in the care of the foster family for six months or longer.
Approves notice and proof of disability or proof of need for family leave, or proof of disability for a special cross-bow permit, from an attending nurse practitioner.
This bill extends New York's existing paid family leave program to include members of the New York Army National Guard and New York Air National Guard. It adds these service members to the list of eligible workers who qualify for paid family leave after serving for 26 consecutive weeks. The change does not alter the current 26-week employment requirement but explicitly includes National Guard enlistment as qualifying service. This directly affects National Guard members who meet the 26-week service threshold, granting them access to the same paid family leave benefits as other covered employees.
Includes delivery network company workers in the definition of "employee" for purposes of paid sick leave; provides that the employer of a delivery network company worker shall be a delivery network company.
Relates to employee access to lactation rooms in the workplace; requires that employers post written policies regarding the rights of nursing employees.
Extends paid family leave benefits to certain construction employees 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; relates to the effectiveness thereof.
This bill (A 9288) establishes specific sick leave accrual rules for New York state employees eligible for certain group insurance policies. It requires these employees to earn sick leave at a rate of one day per biweekly pay period, accumulating up to 225 days total. After using all accrued sick leave, employees may receive sick leave at half-pay, but the total half-pay leave granted cannot exceed one payroll period for every six months of service. The policy applies directly to eligible state employees and modifies existing sick leave provisions under civil service law.
Exempts an employer that is required by contract to provide services to another entity by means of having one or more of its employees work at the facilities of the other entity for the entire daily work period and that must pay an additional employee to provide substitute services in the absence of the original contracted-for employee from the requirement to provide paid sick leave.
Enacts "the rural caregiver relief act"; provides a tax credit for unpaid family caregivers in an amount equal to $3,000 (Part A); establishes a workplace flexibility grant program to support informal caregivers by awarding grants to businesses who offer remote work options, paid leave and flexible schedules to employees who are informal caregivers (Part B); determines the training and assistance available to informal caregivers in rural areas by requiring the director of the aging to conduct a review (Part C); relates to the provision of a transportation assistance stipend for informal caregivers in rural areas of the state (Part D); makes an appropriation to the office for the aging to support the provisions of this act (Part E).
