What's happening
This bill requires employers who relocate out of New York to continue making unemployment insurance contributions for two quarters after leaving.
Why it matters
Targets companies that relocate out of New York by making them continue paying into the state’s unemployment insurance fund for two additional quarters. this means businesses can’t immediately end their financial responsibility to laid-off workers just because they move operations elsewhere.
Aims to strengthen the solvency of New York’s unemployment insurance fund. by extending employer contributions, the bill seeks to ensure there are enough resources to support workers who lose jobs due to business relocations, potentially reducing strain on the fund and the risk of benefit shortfalls.
Requires relocating employers to provide detailed reports identifying all terminated employees and their weekly wages. this increases accountability and transparency, helping the state track exactly who is affected and calculate appropriate unemployment benefits more accurately.
Could impact business decisions about relocating. by increasing the cost of moving out of state, the bill may encourage companies to reconsider or delay relocation, indirectly supporting local job retention and economic stability.
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Make Exiting Employers Pay
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Make Exiting Employers Pay Unemployment
In Senate Committee · Labor · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
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STATE OF NEW YORK
92
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to enacting the Unemployment Insurance Liability Act of 2017
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act of 2017".
§ 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares that employers that have relocated out of New York state are not required to make scheduled quarterly contributions to the unemployment insurance fund once they have left the state.
The legislature further declares that this creates a continuing hardship on the fund which threatens its solvency.
Therefore, the legislature declares that employer contributions to the unemployment insurance fund shall continue even after the employer has left New York state, where former employees are receiving benefits.
§ 3. Subdivision 1 of section 562 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 103 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
1. Required coverage. (a) Any employer who has once become liable for contributions under this article with respect to persons other than persons employed in personal or domestic service in private homes shall [cease to be liable as of] remain liable until the first day of the calendar quarter next following the filing of his written application provided the commissioner finds that the employer has not relocated out of state or, with respect to [such] persons other than those employed in personal or domestic service in private homes, paid remuneration of three hundred dollars or more in any of the four calendar quarters preceding such day.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(b) An employer who has relocated out of state shall remain liable for contributions to the fund for two quarters from the date on which the relocation occurred. Contributions to the fund shall be based on the final quarterly report as submitted.
(c) An employer who has relocated out of state shall:
(i) identify all employees being terminated as a result of the relocation, and
(ii) include the amount of weekly wages paid to such individuals as part of the final quarterly payroll report submitted to the department.
(d) Any employer who has once become liable for contributions under this article with respect to persons employed in personal or domestic service in a private home shall cease to be liable as of the first day of the calendar quarter next following the filing of his written application, provided the commissioner finds that the employer has not with respect to such persons paid remuneration in cash of five hundred dollars or more in any of the four calendar quarters preceding such day.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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