What's happening
This bill requires that unemployment work search regulations consider and accommodate the need for claimants to provide child care.
Why it matters
Recognizes the real-world challenge. that many unemployed individuals face in balancing job search requirements with providing child care, particularly for single parents or low-income families.
Could broaden eligibility for unemployment benefits. by reducing instances where parents are penalized or disqualified solely because their caregiving responsibilities limit their ability to meet traditional work search standards.
May encourage more inclusive and equitable unemployment policies. , acknowledging that a “one size fits all” approach to job search requirements can disproportionately impact caregivers, especially women.
Signals a shift in state policy. toward supporting workforce participation for parents, potentially reducing economic stress and promoting child well-being by allowing parents to prioritize safe and adequate care during periods of unemployment.
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Support Unemployed Parents' Childcare
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2 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Ordered to third reading cal.474
- Advanced to third reading cal.303
- Reported
- Referred to labor
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Child Care Counts for Unemployment
In Senate Committee · Labor · Sponsor James Sanders Jr.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6781
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find work for unemployment benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended by section 12 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
2. Availability, capability, and work search. No benefits shall be payable to any claimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready, willing and able to work in his or her usual employment or in any other for which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience and who is not actively seeking work. In order to be actively seeking work a claimant must be engaged in systematic and sustained efforts to find work. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations defining systematic and sustained efforts to find work and setting standards for the proof of work search efforts. Such regulations shall take into account the need for claimants to provide child care for their child or children, and the regulations shall ensure that such claimants are able to satisfy the standards for proof of work search efforts.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date as the reversion of subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law as provided in section 10 of chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, as amended.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02082-01-7
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